Mud and stars

Sara Wheeler

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With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She follows 19th-century footsteps to make connections between then and now: between the places where flashing-epauletted Lermontov died in the aromatic air of Pyatigorsk, and sheaves of corn still stand like soldiers on a blazing afternoon, just like in Gogol's stories.

Author(s): Wheeler, Sara
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 23/07/2020
Pagination: 304 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Vintage
Published By: Vintage
Book Classification: Travel writing|Literary studies: general|Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18
Weight: 213
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780099584131

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