Black Earth City
Author | : Charlotte Hobson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 0312420617 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780312420611 |
Rating | : 4/5 (611 Downloads) |
Download or read book Black Earth City written by Charlotte Hobson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1991, the Soviet Union is collapsing and people conquer uncertainty, hunger, and negative-twenty degree temperatures by drinking too much vodka and reveling in their new-found sexual freedom. Charlotte Hobson is our irresistible guide to this tumultuous time. We meet Yakov, who blows half-a-million rubles on a taxi to see a girl in Minsk; Lola, who sleeps with her peers for a share of their dinner; Viktor, who struggles to forget his brutal memories of military service; and Mitya, Hobson’s wild and optimistic lover, whose gradual disillusion and dissolution mirror his country’s lurch from euphoria to despair.