Notes from the Blockade

by Lidiya Ginzburg

Book Overview

From her experience as a survivor of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an impression of the dignity, vitality, and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it makes sense of extreme experience. This classic work of documentary fiction, reminiscent of Primo Levi and Albert...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099583380
• ISBN13: 9780099583387
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"