Word for Word: A Memoir

by Lilianna Lungina

Book Overview

A child of the 1920s, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when her parents moved to the USSR when she was thirteen, Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends, and subjected to her new country's ruthless, systematic anti-Semitism, Lungina nonetheless carved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468307320
• ISBN13: 9781468307320
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 9.4"