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Ester and Ruzya by Masha Gessen (2005 Trade PB) - AS NEW!!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9780385336055
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385336055
ISBN-13
9780385336055
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45407298
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ester and Ruzya : How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Political, Historical, Jewish
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
A loving memoir of two grandmothers that offers a penetrating look at two killer regimes. Masha Gessen's wonderful book portrays human beings trying to live justly when there is virtually no way to do so." ---William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofKhrushchev: The Man and His Era "This blend of historical depth with personal experience is a powerful mix, illuminating how family and friendship can grow in even the darkest eras." --Publishers Weekly "A journalist's memoir of her grandmothers also paints an eloquent portrait of two totalitarian powers, the havoc they wrought, and the countless burdens they imposed on ordinary families.... A masterful chronicle of dark and dangerous years, and a distinguished addition to the history of totalitarianism." --Kirkus Reviews "Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir....Ester and Ruzyawill remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer." --New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition., A loving memoir of two grandmothers that offers a penetrating look at two killer regimes. Masha Gessen's wonderful book portrays human beings trying to live justly when there is virtually no way to do so." ---William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era "This blend of historical depth with personal experience is a powerful mix, illuminating how family and friendship can grow in even the darkest eras." -- Publishers Weekly "A journalist's memoir of her grandmothers also paints an eloquent portrait of two totalitarian powers, the havoc they wrought, and the countless burdens they imposed on ordinary families.... A masterful chronicle of dark and dangerous years, and a distinguished addition to the history of totalitarianism." -- Kirkus Reviews "Reviewers sometimes call a work of nonfiction 'as exciting as a novel,' but that would be an understatement applied to this extraordinary family memoir.... Ester and Ruzya will remind you how much life, history and emotional and moral complexity the genre can convey in the hands of a wonderful writer." -- New York Times Book Review From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
947.084/092/39240438
Synopsis
In this "extraordinary family memoir,"* the National Book Award-winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. * The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler's concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin's regime. At war's end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children's and grandchildren's eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers' lives--and to show that neither story is quite what it seems. Praise for Masha Gessen "One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation." --David Remnick, The New Yorker "Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest." --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, In this absorbing portrait, Gessen relates the experiences of her two grandmothers, both Russian Jews who survived the atrocities inflicted by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, showing how overwhelming events force people to search for the decent compromise.
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