Overview
"In 1988, at the age of 26, Pieter Waterdrinker was at home in the Netherlands one day when a man knocked on his door and asked him to smuggle a shipment of bibles into the USSR. The resulting adventure would lead to a lifelong journey into Russia and its history. Waterdrinker would eventually find himself living in Saint Petersburg, with his Russian wife and three cats, on a street which a hundred years earlier had been the epicentre of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street he tells its story, from the fall of the Tsar to the collapse of the USSR, blending history with memoir to create an ode to the divided soul of Russia and an unputdownable account of his own struggles with life, literature and love. ""Words by Waterdrinker are as amazing as a superior circus."" --Elsevier ""How evocatively Waterdrinker can write! A hundred years after the Russian Revolution, he makes this violent period of history shine once again."" --Zin"
Full Product Details
Author: Pieter Waterdrinker ,
Paul Evans
Publisher: Scribe Us
Imprint: Scribe Us
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 23.60cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9781950354887
ISBN 10: 1950354881
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 05 April 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Praise for Lenin's Balsem: A book with an exotic elegance. --Elsevier A hilarious quest, written in a wonderful baroque style. --De Telegraaf Praise for The Death of Mila Burger: In many respects The Death of Mila Burger is a novel about twenty-first-century Russia, dished up according to the laws of the nineteenth-century novel. Fluent, expressive, amusing. --NRC Handelsblad The Death of Mila Burger is a classic tragedy. It is quality prose. Exuberant in a rather un-Dutch way. --Vrij Nederland
Author Information
Pieter Waterdrinker (born 1961, Haarlem) is one of the most successful novelists in contemporary Dutch literature, praised for his compelling voice. He studied Russian at the University of Amsterdam, and was a long-time correspondent at the leading Dutch daily De Telegraaf. His literary work has often been translated and longlisted for awards, and his last novel The Rat of Amsterdam is a critically acclaimed bestseller. He lives between Saint Petersburg and the South of France. Paul Evans is a Welsh poet and writer. He has published poetry in Britain and Holland, and translations of Dutch poetry, drama, and fiction with Faber and Seren. His translated plays have been performed at The Old Vic and The Guggenheim. His latest poetry collection is Grand Larcenies (Carcanet, 2021).
