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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a fantastic book. Recommended by my reading buddy Kyla, this was a wonderful collection of stories all woven into an overall tale of adventure and history. I kept wondering what was real, what was not, did this really happen, or did it not? I was surprised how captivated I became by each character I met. ( ) I’m usually wary of any book where the author’s name is in larger print than the title of the book. This one though, was recommended to me days before I was heading to a village for five weeks isolation in Papua New Guinea. In desperation, I took it along. It wasn’t until 2 days before we left and I’d finished all I wanted to read that I asked my wife to choose my next book. Fate laid it in my lap. It’s loosely true… loosely. Although how much such an ultimately influential group of people all happen to have escaped Russia early 20th century barbarism all in one group is a little contrived I fear. However, if we lay scepticism aside, it’s a cosy piece of story-telling consisting as it does of 7 stories and then short accounts as to what’s happened to each of the story-tellers. The stories all take place around a fire where a meal is cooked over a frying pan. In essence, the book has nothing to do with the frying pan really. My edition had a picture of a violin on the front and that had nothing much to do with the stories either. It’s a fast read – one of those books where it seems the publisher has discovered they have a surplus budget for paper. It would make a good read on a plane if it was a short flight. For long haul, it’d be over before lunch. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan - it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses manages to feed the various refugees who are travelling with her across Russia to freedom. In return, each of the group must tell a story around the campfire at night - stories of compassion and bravery, of human frailty and, above all, of hope. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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