One thousand and a night as told by Larissa, construction shock worker / Marina Sonkina ; with the assistance of Alexandra Berlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonkina, Marina, 1952- author.

Series:

Essential prose series ; 229.

Essential prose series ; 229

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older women--Fiction.

Older women.

Jewish women--Fiction.

Jewish women.

Jewish families--Fiction.

Jewish families.

Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

295 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Chicago ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2025.

Summary:

"One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock-Worker is both a comic and tragic saga of a Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish family, headed by an irreverent, no-nonsense eighty-year-old Larissa, whose vitality and life-affirming wit overcomes all the hurdles thrown her way by the Soviet regime. Both lighthearted and tragic, this tale of suffering and love takes us to Ukraine, central Russia, Siberia, Montenegro and Canada. The “silent generations” of the Soviet history speak through the voice of a woman who is trying to come to terms with the dramatic past of her two countries—Russia and Ukraine—as well as her own family history."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Sonkina, Marina, 1952- One thousand and a night as told by Larissa, construction shock-worker.

ISBN:

9781771839662

177183966X

OCLC:

1466115323