![]() ![]() ![]() Gorokhova’s book is … endearing, a collection of well-sculptured memories about the deprivations and joys of her childhood in Leningrad (now St. ![]() “Gorokhova’s memoir of Cold War Leningrad recalls her life as a bright, hardworking schoolgirl who gets perfect marks and can recite Party-approved lines of Pushkin and Turgenev from memory.” “A Mountain of Crumbs is written above all with an almost painful tenderness that brought a lump to my throat more than once… Gorokhova’s memoir looks back with love at the lost world… Her prose brims with an elegiac emotion and sensuality which even Turgenev, in his own European exile, might have envied.” …With pitch-perfect lyricism, tremendous power of recall, and disarming wit, Gorokhova shows us how the self-deception that went on inside individuals …was an extension of the system.” …One of Gorokhova’s achievements is to recreate the everyday Soviet world in luminous tableaux, universal in their truthfulness. “…extraordinarily vivid and affecting memoir of an ordinary Soviet family. “It’s a rich tale of life behind the Iron Curtain.” ![]() …is a stunning memoir: subtle, yet brimming with depth and detail. The New York Times Book Review ( full review) … Each chapter distills a new revelation in poetic prose. … Gorokhova writes about her life with a novelist’s gift for threading motives around the heart of a story. “…her exquisitely wrought, tender memoir of growing up in the Soviet Union…could be taught as a master class in memoir writing. ![]()
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