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Mud and Stars Sara Wheeler

Mud and Stars By Sara Wheeler

Mud and Stars by Sara Wheeler

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Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia by Sara Wheeler

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020

With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections between then and now. On the Trans-Siberian railway, at sail on the Black Sea, or while watching television with her hosts in Soviet apartment blocks, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news - a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.

At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler gives a voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia and discovers how the writers of the past continue to represent their country today.

Mud and Stars Reviews

Wheeler's writing is full of...strong detail; her drily witty sentences snap like sushki, the crunchy sugared bread rings Russians east with their coffee. Mud and Stars is a pleasure to read slowly... her modest, ungrand tour, with its rich map of extraordinary writers and ordinary Russians...is far more of an epic than it at first appears. * Daily Telegraph *
[A] literary romp in the footsteps of [Russia's big beast 19th-century] writers - which does not skimp on detail or seriousness... I approached this book thinking that it would be - along with Elif Batuman's The Possessedand Viv Groskop's The Anna Karenina Fix - the third in a recent hattrick of women's journeys through Russian literature. Wheeler goes beyond these books by travelling to the backwaters of Russia so that we don't have to - we can continue to travel in the comfort of our armchair through the pages of the masterpieces that the great writers left behind. * The Times *
The image many westerners have of Russia is an unflattering one, heavy on totalitarianism and repression. Sara Wheeler offers an important corrective. Part literary criticism, part travelogue, her fascinating book... is as enthusiastic and authoritative a guide as one could wish for. * Guardian *
Well informed and independent-minded... [Mud and Stars is] an intelligent inquiry into the human condition itself... Wheeler is also side-splittingly funny in her breaking of taboos. * Times Literary Supplement *
Wheeler is a determined traveller, roving well beyond the itinerary of tourist Russia... [she has] an insight into a random sample of contemporary Russians - how they live, what they think. The outcome is a book that is enjoyable and enlightening in equal measure. * Tablet *

About Sara Wheeler

Sara Wheeler's travel books include Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1997), The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic (2010) and Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010 (2011). She has also written biographies of Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Denys Finch Hatton, and O My America!, about women who travelled to America in the nineteenth century.

Additional information

GOR012507138
9780099584131
0099584131
Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia by Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler
Used - Like New
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20200723
304
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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