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Loading... Medea and Her Children (1996)by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As I had heard so many praises concerning this novel, I was a bit disappointed. I was waiting for more Russian history, but got something resembling a (tragic) love story. (Tragic in parenthesis as I could not truly identify or sympathize with the characters.) Most of all I was irritated about the style. 1) The use of three dots in the end of paragraphs (sometimes several times in consecutive paragraphs) made me want to scream: just say it, please, do not just indicate! Most of all this stylish technique influenced the description of characters, leaving them vague and superficial. 2) Some expressions were just too strange. This may also be a fault of the Finnish translation, but the language just didn't flow. Instead, it interrupted the story several times - and not in a positive sense. no reviews | add a review
Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea’s devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.735Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1991–LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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