Another Life And The House On The Embankment
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
From the shadowed corridors of Soviet Moscow emerges a master of moral introspection: Yuri Trifonov's Another Life and The House on the Embankment presents two of his most celebrated novellas in a single, compelling volume. Another Life chronicles the quiet grief of a widow reconstructing her marriage through memory, unearthing the compromises and unspoken tensions that defined her life with a historian husband whose ambitions were slowly crushed by the Soviet system. The House on the Embankment transports the reader to a famous Moscow apartment building — home to the Soviet elite — where a man haunted by a act of youthful cowardice confronts the long shadow of betrayal and complicity that has shaped his entire existence. Trifonov stands as one of the foremost voices of 20th-century Russian prose, a writer who dissected the moral erosions of everyday Soviet life with scalpel-like precision and unflinching honesty. Rendered into fluid, luminous English by translator Michael Glenny, these novellas illustrate how grand historical forces — purges, privilege, political terror — are lived out in the intimate spaces of kitchens, bedrooms, and aging memories. Together, they pose a question that lingers long after the final page: when a system demands compromise, what remains of the self?
Author: Yuri Trifonov
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
From the shadowed corridors of Soviet Moscow emerges a master of moral introspection: Yuri Trifonov's Another Life and The House on the Embankment presents two of his most celebrated novellas in a single, compelling volume. Another Life chronicles the quiet grief of a widow reconstructing her marriage through memory, unearthing the compromises and unspoken tensions that defined her life with a historian husband whose ambitions were slowly crushed by the Soviet system. The House on the Embankment transports the reader to a famous Moscow apartment building — home to the Soviet elite — where a man haunted by a act of youthful cowardice confronts the long shadow of betrayal and complicity that has shaped his entire existence. Trifonov stands as one of the foremost voices of 20th-century Russian prose, a writer who dissected the moral erosions of everyday Soviet life with scalpel-like precision and unflinching honesty. Rendered into fluid, luminous English by translator Michael Glenny, these novellas illustrate how grand historical forces — purges, privilege, political terror — are lived out in the intimate spaces of kitchens, bedrooms, and aging memories. Together, they pose a question that lingers long after the final page: when a system demands compromise, what remains of the self?