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Book Description
Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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The motherland’s tight embrace
At nursery school, along with her warm milk, little Lena Gorokhova imbibed the essence of survival in the post-war Soviet Union. It consisted of a game called vranyo — pretence: My parents play it at work, and my older sister Marina plays it at schoo ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova
When you open a memoir set in Soviet times, the first thing you want to know is what sort of company you'll be keeping for the next 300 pages. When I read, on page 1: "I wish my mother had come from Leningrad, from the world of Pushkin and the tsars, ... (read full critics)