The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
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The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about
coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in
Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the
opulent Metropol Hotel--the setting of the New York Times
bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles--Ludmilla
Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who
were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in
bread lines. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning
memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation--of
wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms,
and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far
removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally
celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant
upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and
beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive
pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of
self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her
feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice
to a nation of survivors was forged. From heartrending facts
Petrushevskaya concocts a humorous and lyrical account of the
toughest childhood and youth imaginable. . . . It belongs]
alongside the classic stories of humanity's beloved plucky child
heroes: Edith Piaf, Charlie Chaplin, the Artful Dodger, Gavroche,
David Copperfield. . . . The child is irresistible and so is the
adult narrator who creates a poignant portrait from the rags and
riches of her memory. --Anna Summers, from the Introduction
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