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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aSara Wheeler.
245			_aMUD AND STARS : _btravels in Russia with Pushkin and other geniuses of the Golden Age
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260			_aLondon _bJonathan Cape _c2019/01/01
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500			_a There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is its emotional, literary counterpart. In Mud and Stars, award-winning writer Sara Wheeler sets out to explore both. With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She follows nineteenth-century footsteps to make connections between then and now- between the places where flashing-epauletted Lermontov died in the aromatic air of Pyatigorsk, and sheaves of corn still stand like soldiers on a blazing afternoon, just like in Gogol's stories. On the Trans-Siberian railway in winter she crunches across snowy platforms to buy dried fish from babushki, and in summer she sails the Black Sea where dolphins leapt in front of violet Abkhazian peaks. She also spends months in fourth-floor 1950s apartments, watching television with her hosts, her new friends bent over devices and moaning about Ukraine. At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news - a Russia of humanity and daily struggles. She gives voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia, and discovers how the writers of the Golden Age continue to represent their country today.
650			_aTravels.
650			_aRussia.
650			_aHomes, Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
650			_aRussia (Federation).
650			_aPushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.
650			_aTurgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.
650			_aTolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
650			_aGogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
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