I. Tagged. Just brilliant writing
II. War & Peace, it took me three attempts but it really is a masterpiece. NW by Zadie Smith, I hated it until 2/3 in but it is fantastic
III. Remove. I'd prefer hardbacks to have pretty/printed bindings and no dust-jackets
#wondrouswednesday
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War and Peace: Original Version
pickA yng historian is researching the 'White' general Larionov who resisted the red army in post revolution civil war +then survived to live a long life whilst many around him including loyal soviets are purged. He heads to yalta for a lecture + to find the generals notes to meet wonderful characters, comic scenes but pages peppered with memoir of war and love. A brill book unknown to me but found thanks to @Moray_Reads
#ReadingEurope2020 Russia
Im not sure if I'll finish this tonight, the perrenial dilemma of i don't want to finish the book but can't stop reading plus an easter egg of a recommendation for 'Aelita' anyway i liked this idea of a comparison with a letter arriving for dostoevsky
from Germany in 5 days yet our hero waits for a month for a letter fro Moscow -with many thanks to @Moray_Reads for this suggestion which has made for a happy weekend's reading.
pickIt's not every writer that could make a young academic's investigations into how a White Army general lived unmolested under the Communists but Vodolazkin manages it. The minor detail of Solovyov's studies could easily become tedious but instead creates a wholly engrossing disk narrative stories and cleverly reveals the fluidity of historical narratives.
