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A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
Record details
- ISBN: 1439135584 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 9781439135587 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 1439125678
- ISBN: 9781439125670 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
Content descriptions
| Language Note: | Translation of: Gora kroshek. |
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| Genre: | Autobiography. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | 947 GOR (Text) | 35146001575638 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | B GOR (Text) | KPL91105 | Biography | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | 947.2 Goro (Text) | 33294001719566 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | 947.21085092 GOR (Text)
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33923004485763 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Traces the author's childhood in the Cold War Soviet Union, describing such formative influences as her father's work as a ranking member of the Communist party, her uncle's arrest for telling a joke to a foreigner and her sister's performance in a Western play. - Simon and Schuster
Elena Gorokhovaâs A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.
Elenaâs country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English languageâbut in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive.
Through Elenaâs captivating voice, we learn not only the stories of Russian family life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose curiosity and determination finally transport her to a new world. It is an elegy to the lost country of childhood, where those who leave can never return.
