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The Gingerbread Race: A Life In The Closing World Once Called Free
Andrei Navrozov
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Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper
At the height of the era of rhetorical antagonism known as the Cold War, a young man, son and grandson of Russian writers, crossed the border to the West. He had never attended Soviet school and spent his childhood reading Xenophon in the fabulous seclusion of a summer enclave near Moscow, where Stalin's henchmen, like Andrei Gromyko, had their villas. Escape to freedom was an obsessive dream, as it had been his father's and grandfather's. What would he find in New York and London, when this dream came true? If ideas are born, live and have a history, this book ... Read more
At the height of the era of rhetorical antagonism known as the Cold War, a young man, son and grandson of Russian writers, crossed the border to the West. He had never attended Soviet school and spent his childhood reading Xenophon in the fabulous seclusion of a summer enclave near Moscow, where Stalin's henchmen, like Andrei Gromyko, had their villas. Escape to freedom was an obsessive dream, as it had been his father's and grandfather's. What would he find in New York and London, when this dream came true? If ideas are born, live and have a history, this book ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador Original
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330326360
SKU
KTJ0050260
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