The Last and the First
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The Last and the First by Nina Berberova
The first English translation of celebrated Russian writer Nina Berberova's debut novel: an intense story of family conflict.
“[Berberova’s] psychological portraits, dialogue, and prose are intensely elegant, even luminousShe seemed to have an otherworldly sense of what to say outright and what to leave implicit in her work.” -- Kirkus Reviews
"[A] unique, harmonious, and brilliant book. Her language is uncommonly strong and pure; her images are magnificent for their solid and precise power... this is literature of the highest quality, the work of a genuine writer." -- Vladimir Nabokov
"Haunting... as graceful and subtle as Chekhov." -- Anne Tyler, New Republic
"Like Turgenev and Chekhov, of whom she is the rightful heir, Berberova... is uncannily shrewd about romance, about its bright promise, without making her characters' real satisfaction seem trite." -- New York Review of Books
"...an elegant tale of emigration, patriotism and destitution’... ‘With echoes of Tolstoy and and Chekhov, the novel is at once soberly realistic and richly symbolic." --Bryan Karetnyk, The Financial Times Life & Arts
"[A] unique, harmonious, and brilliant book. Her language is uncommonly strong and pure; her images are magnificent for their solid and precise power... this is literature of the highest quality, the work of a genuine writer." -- Vladimir Nabokov
"Haunting... as graceful and subtle as Chekhov." -- Anne Tyler, New Republic
"Like Turgenev and Chekhov, of whom she is the rightful heir, Berberova... is uncannily shrewd about romance, about its bright promise, without making her characters' real satisfaction seem trite." -- New York Review of Books
"...an elegant tale of emigration, patriotism and destitution’... ‘With echoes of Tolstoy and and Chekhov, the novel is at once soberly realistic and richly symbolic." --Bryan Karetnyk, The Financial Times Life & Arts
Nina Berberova (1901-1993) was a Russian-born writer. Raised in St Petersburg, she left Russia in 1922 and lived in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Italy before settling in Paris in 1925. There she published widely in the émigré press, and wrote the stories and novels for which she is now known. Berberova emigrated to the United States in 1950 and eventually took up academic posts at Yale and then Princeton. In France she was honoured as a chevalier of l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782276975 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782276971 |
| Title | The Last and the First |
| Author | Nina Berberova |
| Series | Pushkin Collection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2021-07-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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