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Title: The Stalin Epigram
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Robert Littell
Narrator: John Lee, Anne Flosnik
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-13-09
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 82 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A master of historical detail and cultural authenticity, best-selling author Robert Littell based this novel in part on a memorable, intimate meeting with Mandelstam's wife in 1979. Narrated by Mandelstam's wife, his friends Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, and Mandelstam himself, this lucid account of the relationships between the artists, politicians, and proletariat of Stalinist Russia is an astounding moment in history brought to life by a perceptive, immensely talented writer.
Critic Reviews:
"Littell is unflinching in his portrayal of Osip's tragic arc, bringing a troubled era of Russian history to rich, magnificent life." (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review)
"Not since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich has an author captured the crushing sense of foreboding that hung over Uncle Joes Soviet state with the clear-eyed acuity that imbues every page of Robert Littells The Stalin Epigram. [Its also] a quintessentially Russian love story, which virtually guarantees that the roses thorn will outlive its petals." (BookPage)
"[T]here is a surreal quality to the story that makes it by turns gruesome, darkly absurd and hysterical. The strength of this narrative lies in the straightforward description of the awful absurdities, the brutality, the bureaucratic pretzel logic and the mental and physical responses to it, that were required to survive Stalins regime." (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
