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Authors, Soviet Authors, Soviet 20th century Fiction Girls Fiction Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1893-1930 Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1893-1930 Fiction Middle-aged men Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union Politics and government 20th century Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations)Rafeenko, Vladimir
Summary: "A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAFNabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Summary: Humbert Humbert attempts to justify his love for and obsession with the barely adolescent Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. Humbert's cross-country flight with his adored nymphet ends with her betrayal of him with his rival, the evil Quilty, who pursues Lolita not out of love but out of lust and selfishness, and who functions as a kind of double for the more pure-hearted (if perverse) Humbert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NABLittell, Robert
Summary: "In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Metropole Hotel. They have gathered, not altogether willingly, to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure. Each of these ladies loved Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016