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Memories – From Moscow to the Black Sea
- Author
- Teffi
- Narrator
- Rebecca Crankshaw
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 19 November 2019
- Run Time
- 7 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs
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- Author
- Teffi
- Narrator
- Rebecca Crankshaw
- Duration
- 7 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 November 2019
- ISBN
- 9781782276449
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Memoirs
Synopsis
The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave her country forever. Memories is her blackly funny and heartbreaking account of her final, frantic journey into exile across Russia - travelling by cart, freight train and rickety steamer – and the 'ordinary and unheroic' people she encounters. From refugees setting up camp on a dockside to a singer desperately buying a few 'last scraps' of fabric to make a dress, all are caught up in the whirlwind; all are immortalised by Teffi's penetrating gaze. Fusing exuberant wit and bitter horror, this is an extraordinary portrayal of what it means to say goodbye, with haunting relevance in today's new age of diaspora.
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