The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and Liudmila Petrusevskaia

Book Overview

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel--the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles--Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014312997X
• ISBN13: 9780143129974
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"