Glorious People / Sasha Salzmann ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salzmann, Marianna, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Imogen (Translator), translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein. English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

331 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2024.

Language Note:

Translated from the original German.

Summary:

"As a child, Lena longs to pick hazelnuts in the woods with her grandmother. Instead, she is raised to be a good socialist: sent to Pioneer summer camps where she's taught to worship Lenin and sing songs in praise of the glorious Soviet Union. But perestroika is coming. Lena's corner of the USSR is now Ukraine, and corruption and patronage are the only ways to get by - to secure a place at university, an apartment, treatment for a sick baby. For Tatjana, the shock of the new means the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union and certified foreign whisky, but no food in the shops; it means terrible choices about how to love. Eventually both women must decide whether to stay or to emigrate, but the trauma they carry is handed down to their daughters, who struggle to make sense of their own identities. Glorious People is a vivid depiction of how the collapse of the Soviet Union reverberated through the lives of ordinary people. Engrossing, rich in detail and unforgettable characters, this is a captivating love letter to mothers and daughters." --Publisher's description.

Notes:

Originally published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Germany, 2021.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781782279488

1782279482

OCLC:

1369678353