Title: Maidenhair
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.
Subjects: Women singers, Refugees, Translators, Fiction, Switzerland, fiction, Singers, fiction, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, general, Roman, Russisch, Behörde, Dolmetscher, Flüchtling, Migration, Russen
Places: Switzerland, Russia, Soviet Union
People: Izabella I︠U︡rʹeva