num_pages: 442
description: The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also a profound inspiration--a love story that relates the daily struggle to keep both love and art alive in the most desperate of circumstances.
language: English
title: Hope Against Hope
titlecomplete: Hope Against Hope
genres: History, Russia, Biography Memoir, Russian Literature, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1084
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Max Hayward
publisher: Modern Library