Moscow Farewell
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, slight wear and fading to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact.
Set against the brooding, snow-laden backdrop of Soviet Moscow, Moscow Farewell is a richly atmospheric novel that chronicles the lives of foreigners and Russians entwined in the contradictions of Cold War life. George Feifer draws on his intimate knowledge of the Soviet Union to paint a vivid portrait of a society simultaneously magnetic and suffocating, where personal relationships are shadowed by ideology, surveillance, and the constant threat of separation. The novel presents its characters with unflinching honesty, capturing the bittersweet texture of friendships and romances that must inevitably fracture against the iron realities of the USSR. Written with a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's gift for emotional depth, it stands as a compelling document of a vanished world and the human cost of living within it.
Author: George Feifer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, The Viking Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, slight wear and fading to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact.
Set against the brooding, snow-laden backdrop of Soviet Moscow, Moscow Farewell is a richly atmospheric novel that chronicles the lives of foreigners and Russians entwined in the contradictions of Cold War life. George Feifer draws on his intimate knowledge of the Soviet Union to paint a vivid portrait of a society simultaneously magnetic and suffocating, where personal relationships are shadowed by ideology, surveillance, and the constant threat of separation. The novel presents its characters with unflinching honesty, capturing the bittersweet texture of friendships and romances that must inevitably fracture against the iron realities of the USSR. Written with a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's gift for emotional depth, it stands as a compelling document of a vanished world and the human cost of living within it.