num_pages: 153
description: The House on the Embankment, told by two narrators, is a series of intertwined reminiscences, flashbacks, and episodes, mainly of childhood and young adulthood in Moscow under Joseph Stalin. Most of the novella, told in the third person, relates incidents from the life of Vadim Alexandrovich Glebov. These portions alternate with short chapters told by an unidentified narrator who once knew Glebov.
language: English
title: The House on the Embankment
titlecomplete: The House on the Embankment
genres: Fiction, Literature, Classics, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 630
publisher: Abacus