Born in 1914 in Czernovitz in what is now Ukraine, the author was successively a citizen of Austro-Hungary, Romania and the Soviet Union as the bloody tides of the C20th swept to and fro before becoming stateless. This extraordinary memoir – unsentimental, startlingly clear, often shocking – is written through portraits of his mother, his father, his sister and his remarkable Ruthenian wetnurse/nanny, who spoke several languages but none fluently. No nostalgia here but instead a vivid and unforgettable portrait of a vanished world whose shades remain with us, intensely so. “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?”
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography
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Edition:Paperback978014119273406/05/2010From a Bookshelf nearby
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One of the lovely Everyman anthologies, to match 'Venice', 'London' etc. Edited by the distinguished author of 'Last Days in Old Europe'.
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