num_pages: 352
description: "The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
language: English
title: The Gift
titlecomplete: The Gift
characters: Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Elizaveta Pavlovna, Zina Mertz
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Germany, Russian Literature, Russia, Fiction
ratings_count: 4140
places: Berlin
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons