Author: Yuri Trifonov Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories:
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ISBNs: 9780671605926 0671605925 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.
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