Born in Russia, Poplavsky fled to Paris in the Revolution, where he become a literary and artistic enfant terrible of the emigré circles of Montparnasse. This novel, translated into English for the first time, captures the life of young Russian exiles in Paris and the French Riviera in the 1920s.
Homeward from Heaven
£34.00
Edition:Hardback978023119930814/06/2022
Categories: 04. Spring Books 2022: Fiction, Fiction, Spring Books 2022
Tags: Fiction in Translation, France, Russia
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