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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Although I didn't finish the book, I still enjoyed a lot of passages. A glimpse into the life of eyewitnesses can clarify a lot. The story starts in the early 20th century in the better circles of Russia, and follows the decline of the family, inevitably given the Russian Revolution. A bit of pruning and less jump back and forth and repetitions would certainly benefit the novel. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I still have not finished this book. Usually I put a book down right away or finish it fairly quickly. This book has some interesting parts but is also very slow in others. I am interested in it but it just doesn’t grab me and give me the urge to keep reading. I gave it two stars because I’d occasionally go back to it between other books so there is something that is a little compelling but not overwelmingly. (I know this review doesn’t really talk about the plot, other's reviews do though. The plot sounded interesting to me and I really wanted to like it but I don’t. I don’t dislike it either. ) Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book follows Irina’s family throughout the 20th century in Russia. It is told as Irina is an old lady, looking back on her life and telling the stories of her family. Irina herself is a hunchback and never did marry. It was ok. There were a lot of characters to remember, and it didn’t help that I didn’t manage to read it without setting it aside for other monthly challenges. I found some stories more interesting than others; as usual, the women’s stories are usually more interesting to me. I was less interested when there was too much talk of politics (though, throughout 20th century Russia, there is a good chunk of that, affecting everyone!). I did appreciate the author’s note at the end, as I always do when I read historical fiction. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Irina’s Story is the historical novel about the Uspensky family throughout the 20th century in Russia. Jim Williams did his utmost to paint a broad variety of colorful characters, mix it with the historical background of the last Romanov Tsar, Bolsheviks, First and Second World War, Stalin up to the fall of the Iron Curtain with Gorbachev. At age 90, Irina Uspenskaya is the last surviving witness of this family saga, once recorded in diaries, and now retold, reframed from a primarily female point of view. Heroes of wars, victims sent to the Gulag, Jewish people despised, trust and religion dismantled.Irina recollects from memory, love letters and fiction. Sometimes she steps out of the storyline to reflect on the way such a time span can be bridged, how fiction is woven into a memoir. This Russian tale kept me reading for hours. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I received this book in exchange for a review. It took me awhile to get through this book. Some sections seemed very slow, others went very quickly for me, particularly the least 1/4 of the book. There is a lot of history in the story, but told from the viewpoints of the characters in the book. Irina seems like a person you would like to meet, she has lots of stories to tell and an interesting take on life. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Irina's Story is the history of the Uspensky family and its attempt to negotiate the perils of 20th century Russia. It begins in the twilight years of the Tsarist empire in the idyllic setting of the family's country home at Babushkino, and describes a world which is destroyed by war, revolution and Stalin's terror, and ends with the fall of communism and the beginning of a new Russia of gangsters and crony-capitalism. At the age of 90, Irina Uspenskaya is the last surviving witness of these events. In her Moscow apartment, while her young relative Slavochka and his friends in "the International Syndicate" aspire to become successful drug dealers, Irina collects the letters and diaries of her parents' generation and sets down the tale of what happened to them all. In turn she describes the doomed marriage of her father Nikolai and her mother Xenia, who love but never understand each other; her idealistic aunt Adalia, who marries the sinister Grodsky; her disreputable uncle Alexander and his feisty wife Tatiana. These and a host of other colourful characters populate the story and we see their world through their eyes and understand it through their thoughts and writings. Our guide, Irina is wry, funny, insightful and humane. Born with a disability, she views events through detached yet sympathetic eyes and reflects on her own history and her unrequited love for a boy she met as a little girl and the family and children she will never have. Irina's Story is told with verve, compassion and a command of the sweep of Russian history. It is at times funny, romantic, tragic and appalling, but suffused throughout with deep humanity. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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