Mother Russia
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor chipping at edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: markings on fep. Binding: Intact hardcover. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A darkly comic Cold War novel, Mother Russia chronicles the misadventures of Robespierre Pravdin, a black-market hustler and incorrigible optimist scraping out an existence on the fringes of Soviet society. Set against the crumbling bureaucratic machinery of 1970s Moscow, Robert Littell paints a vivid and satirical portrait of life under a system that simultaneously crushes and produces such irreverent survivors. With sharp wit and an eye for absurdist detail, the narrative captures the tension between individual spirit and totalitarian conformity. Littell, a former Newsweek journalist and master of the espionage genre, brings the same meticulous authenticity to this character-driven story that distinguished his earlier work, The October Circle.
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some minor chipping at edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: markings on fep. Binding: Intact hardcover. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A darkly comic Cold War novel, Mother Russia chronicles the misadventures of Robespierre Pravdin, a black-market hustler and incorrigible optimist scraping out an existence on the fringes of Soviet society. Set against the crumbling bureaucratic machinery of 1970s Moscow, Robert Littell paints a vivid and satirical portrait of life under a system that simultaneously crushes and produces such irreverent survivors. With sharp wit and an eye for absurdist detail, the narrative captures the tension between individual spirit and totalitarian conformity. Littell, a former Newsweek journalist and master of the espionage genre, brings the same meticulous authenticity to this character-driven story that distinguished his earlier work, The October Circle.
