Next book club we're discussing about women from Russia with The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.
Here's a book summary:
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city.
Join us in Nob Hill on Sunday February 12 at 2pm at La Galleria Cafe.
Next Book:
March: The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Giaconda Belli
Here's a book summary:
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city.
Join us in Nob Hill on Sunday February 12 at 2pm at La Galleria Cafe.
Next Book:
March: The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Giaconda Belli
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