The ship of widows
By: I. Grekova ; translated by Cathy Porter ; with a foreword by Helena Goscilo.
Contributors: Porter, Cathy.
Series: European classics; European classics (Evanston, Ill.)
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.; Soviet Union -- Fiction.
Description: Five women of different backgrounds move into an apartment in Moscow during World War II. The novel chronicles the tensions resulting from differences in intellect, culture, class, not to mention lack of space and a shortages of the basic necessities of life. The author is a Russian mathematician.