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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 DetailsAuthor: Pieter Waterdrinker , Paul EvansPublisher: Scribe Us Imprint: Scribe Us Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781950354887ISBN 10: 1950354881 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 05 April 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsPraise 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 InformationPieter 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |