In the Beginning
$27.27
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
11 July 2016
Summary
IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet’s life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood friend and future husband Igor Geraschenko. With wit and simplicity Irina describes a biased and turbulent education, being pressured to work for the KGB, the growth of faith that became so important to her in later life, and an impromptu wedding. Ratushinskaya shows how her early experiences moulded her personality, enabling her at a time of almost…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473637245 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473637244 |
| Author: | Irina Ratushinskaya |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 11 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 126mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Irina Ratushinskaya
Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa in 1954, is a leading contemporary Russian poet. She spent four years in a labour camp for the religious themes in her poetry, deemed ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda’. She managed to smuggle out her poems and, after a series of hunger strikes, was released and came to Britain.
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