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Mar 30, 2017JCLAngelicaR rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
If you think that life is unfair to you and it's just too much to take, read this miniature in size but enormous in impact memoir. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in the Soviet Union into a family of "the enemies of the people" a few years before the World War II. She had to endure the stigma attached to the status from the very beginning of her life. In her upbeat narrative that alternates from the first to the third person, Petrushevskaya manages to describe almost indescribable episodes from her childhood and youth. The hardships of her life almost destroyed her body but tempered her spirit. She has produced literary masterpieces that finally received a well-deserved recognition in Russia and worldwide. A heart wrenching but hugely inspiring read.