Stalin's Meteorologist - One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death

Informationen zum Autor Olivier Rolin was born in Paris, and is a critically acclaimed author and freelance writer. His books have won many prizes, including the Prix du Style for Stalin’s Meteorologist in 2014.He first visited Russia, then the USSR, in 1986. Since then, he has returned many times and has travelled widely throughout the country. Klappentext The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English. Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English. One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre.

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'Devastating... Often thrilling and always freighted with dread... Admirably artful' Simon Ings Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Olivier Rolin, Rolin Olivier
• Assisted by: Ros Schwartz (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2018
• EAN: 9781784701758
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-175-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Russia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Prisoners of War, General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Biography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Cold wars and proxy conflicts