Sisters of the cross
By: Alexei Remizov ; translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy
Contributors: Keys, Roger, translator; Murphy, Brian, 1923- translator
Series: Russian Library; Russian library (Columbia University. Press)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780231185424; 9780231185431
Subjects: Russian fiction
Work titles: Krestovye sestry
Description: Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with a number of women--the titular "sisters of the cross"--whose sufferings will lead him to question the ultimate meaning of the universe.
Notes: Translation from Russian of: Krestovye sestry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv).