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The Big Green Tent: A Novel

The Big Green Tent: A Novel

by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Author), Polly Gannon (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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Customers find the book's readability positive, with one noting how each chapter stands on its own merits. Moreover, the pacing receives praise for its insights into Russian life, with one customer describing it as a shocking indictment of Soviet life. However, the writing quality and character variety receive mixed reactions - while some find it extremely well written with interesting characters, others note there are too many characters.

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“The Big Green Tent, for all its grand ambition, manages an intimacy that can leave a reader reeling . . . a masterpiece.” ―Colin Dwyer, NPR   With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya’s remarkable novel tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys—an orphaned poet; a gifted pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secrets—struggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled.   Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB. Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art, literature, and activism. And each of them ends up face-to-face with a secret police that is highly skilled at fomenting paranoia, division, and self-betrayal.  Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novel is a revelation of life in dark times. “As grand, solid and impressively all-encompassing as the title implies . . . Ulitskaya's readers will find it hard not to imagine themselves in her characters' place, to ponder what choices we'd make in similar situations.” ―Lara Vapnyar, The New York Times Book Review “A gripping tale.” ―Leonid Bershidsky, The Atlantic “Compelling, addictive reading.” ―Masha Gessen, The New Yorker “[Ulitskaya] writes page-turners that just happen to be monumentally important.” ―Boris Kachka, New York magazine “Worthy of shelving alongside Doctor Zhivago: memorable and moving.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review Read more

Product Information

ASINB00K9NWRMC
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
AccessibilityLearn more
Publication dateNovember 10, 2015
LanguageEnglish
File size4.8 MB
Screen ReaderSupported
Enhanced typesettingEnabled
X-RayNot Enabled
Word WiseEnabled
Print length592 pages
ISBN-13978-0374709716
Page FlipEnabled
Best Sellers Rank#17,436 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #18 in Jewish Literature (Kindle Store) #150 in Contemporary Literary Fiction #164 in 20th Century Historical Fiction (Books)
Customer Reviews4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 259 ratings

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