Tchaikovsky Street 40

Title: Tchaikovsky Street 40

Writer: Pieter Waterdrinker

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789038806723

Condition: Good

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Description:
In Waterdrinker's latest, strongly autobiographical novel Tchaikovsky Street 40, he takes the reader on a dizzying journey through Russian history and through his own life. The starting point is his home in Saint Petersburg, where the author lives with his wife and three cats, in the middle of the neighborhood that was the epicentre of the Russian Revolution of 1917 a hundred years ago. In addition to being a chronicle of this period, which would profoundly determine the course of twentieth-century European history, the novel is an account of the author's incredibly adventurous life, who spent the past quarter century in the Soviet Union and Russia. In the hands of master storyteller Waterdrinker, this becomes a ride on a literary rollercoaster. A novel of poignant beauty, an ode to Russia's divided soul and the eternal internal struggle that this produces. Great also in the way in which Waterdrinker describes his own struggle with life, his writing, love.