{"product_id":"the-girl-from-the-metropol-hotel-growing-up-in-communist-russia-paperback","title":"The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnna Summers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAnna Summers\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age \u003cb\u003eas an enemy of the people \u003c\/b\u003eand finding her voice in Stalinist Russia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel--the setting of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling novel \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman in Moscow \u003c\/i\u003eby Amor Towles--Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation--of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"From heartrending facts Petrushevskaya concocts a humorous and lyrical account of the toughest childhood and youth imaginable. . . . It  belongs] alongside the classic stories of humanity's beloved plucky child heroes: Edith Piaf, Charlie Chaplin, the Artful Dodger, Gavroche, David Copperfield. . . . The child is irresistible and so is the adult narrator who creates a poignant portrait from the rags and riches of her memory.\" --\u003cb\u003eAnna Summers, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family\u003c\/i\u003e. A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978819240237,"sku":"9780143129974","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VEp6V015WnFMTXRaYzYxZC9KNzdwQT09.webp?v=1775810480","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-girl-from-the-metropol-hotel-growing-up-in-communist-russia-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}