This is the story of three boys who form a lifelong friendship after meeting in school in Moscow in the 1950s. As they grow up, they become part of the poor intelligentsia that has to hide books and other writings by authors who criticize the Soviet Union, that has to avoid being seen with certain people, or doing or saying the wrong things in general, so as not to be branded dissidents by the KGB which is always looking over everyone’s shoulder. Ulitskaya creates a […]
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya
