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The Snows of Yesteryear
The Snows of Yesteryear | Gregor Von Rezzori
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Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine�a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a (…more)
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The Snows of Yesteryear | Gregor Von Rezzori
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Penguin calls this a Central European Classic right there on the cover, but as it's set in Ukraine I'm going to count it as #setineasterneurope.

A memoir of the author's childhood in the period after WWI, this is still on my TBR but I'm hoping to get to it soon.

#photoadaynov16

tpixie Sounds good! 8y
Varske A strange book for me. My sisters and I read it, and loved the description of his eccentric parents. Later we realised my father must have born there in the Bukovina. 7y
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