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The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street

Pieter Waterdrinker

  • Bindwijze: Hardcover
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Biografieën & Waargebeurd
  • ISBN: 9781912854073
a Russian adventure
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:10 februari 2022
Aantal pagina's:416
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Pieter Waterdrinker
Hoofdauteur:Pieter Waterdrinker
Vertaling
Eerste Vertaler:Paul Evans
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Product breedte:153 mm
Product hoogte:33 mm
Product lengte:234 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:179 mm
Verpakking hoogte:45 mm
Verpakking lengte:250 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:637 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Product breedte:153 mm
Product hoogte:33 mm
Product lengte:234 mm
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:179 mm
Verpakking hoogte:45 mm
Verpakking lengte:250 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:637 g

Samenvatting

'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband. Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in Saint Petersburg, where he lives with his Russian wife and three cats, Pieter reflects on his personal history in the Soviet Union, as well as the century of revolutions that took place in and around his street. A master storyteller, he blends history with memoir to create an ode to the divided soul of Russia and an unputdownable account of his own struggles with life, literature, and love.