Maidenhair
By: Mikhail Shishkin ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
Contributors: Schwartz, Marian
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781934824368
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Women singers; Refugees; Translators; Fiction
Work titles: Venerin volos
Description: Day after day Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.