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#AprilBookShowers Day 7 - Women in Translation
These are just some of the women authors in translation that I have on my shelves. I'm especially grateful to the publisher Europa Editions for making so many works available in English!
#bookhaul Christmas continues!! These books look amazing.
pick#FunFridayPhoto I'm thankful for this book, which bears witness to the atrocities committed against USSR citizens by Joseph Stalin's government. It's a warning for what can happen when corrupt leaders are unchecked in their power.
#thankful #thankfulfor #overit #persephonebooks
Getting close to finishing this wonderful, heartbreaking, harrowing book!
#booksnbucks #persephonebooks
Reading makes me happy, and reading Persephone Books gives me special joy. They are also reeling from this week's political news, and blogged today that they are mailing one of their books (The World That Was Ours), about overcoming political oppression in apartheid South Africa, to Hillary Clinton as a thank-you for her efforts.
Oh, and eating steamed dumplings also makes me happy 🍣
#FunFridayPhoto #dumplings #reading #persephonebooks
Another #NonFictionNovember read I'm starting today is INTO THE WHIRLWIND, the account of the author's experiences under Stalinist USSR. A victim of the Great Purge, she was expelled from the Communist Party, tried farcically, and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment, hard labor, torture, and eventual exile.
#overit #persephonebooks
As I lay awake on my plank bed, the most unorthodox thoughts passed through my mind—about how thin the line is between high principles and blinkered intolerance, and also how relative are all human systems and ideologies and how absolute the tortures which human beings inflict on one another.
#WITMonth Part 5 - Russian Political Dissident
Eugenia Ginzburg was a member of the Communist Party in the USSR. As part of the Great Purge in 1937, and after a
