num_pages: 336
description: "Ten women, who...have all just given birth in a Leningrad clinic, are unexpectedly quarantined together for ten days. Each night each woman undertakes to tell a story on some previously chosen subject: first love, rape, revenge, jealousy, money, betrayal, happiness, noble deeds or sex in absurd situations...It is an intimate world, startlingly frank about personal and social relationship and, as such, reveals more about Soviet life than anything to be read in a newspaper." -Shelia MacLeod, New Statesman.
language: English
title: The Women's Decameron
titlecomplete: The Women's Decameron
genres: Russia, Short Stories, Fiction, Russian Literature, Literature, Womens, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 350
publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd