City written without a book
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Prose writer Elena Chizhova is a fourth generation Petersburger| author of eight novels, including The Time of Women (Russian Booker Prize), Orestes and Son, The Terracotta Old Woman, Sinologist. Petersburg, “the most beautiful, mysterious, mystical city of Russia”, one way or another (by the scene or one of the characters) is present in every book of the writer.“The City Written from Memory” is an investigative novel, where Petersburg becomes a city of memory - personal, family, historical. Elena Chizhova is bit by bit restoring the fascinating history of her family. The count's maid, the furnace master, the brilliant dressmaker, the soldier, the chief engineer, the owner of the manufactory and the half-breed girl who "poisons novels" to her friends in the attic - four generations that keep the memory of the events of the 20th century that befell Leningraders: the Civil War, repressions of the 1930s, blockade, evacuation, difficult post-war times.
The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.
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- Name of the Author
- Чижова Elena Semenovna
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Age
- 16
- Release date
- 2019
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Prose writer Elena Chizhova is a fourth-generation Petersburger| author of eight novels, including The Time of Women (Russian Booker Prize), Orestes and Son, Terr...