With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various forms – essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents – Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
ISBN: | 9781804270585 |
Publication date: | 8th November 2023 |
Author: | Maria Stepanova |
Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 510 pages |
Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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