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3 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“And then the third that I would recommend is Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.”
Why: It's a really poignant, beautiful, heartbreaking book.
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Guest on Conversations with TylerJulia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
“I would also recommend, even though the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, Svetlana Alexievich, people may know her as the author of the Chernobyl Diaries, which was basically pillaged by the makers of the HBO show Chernobyl. The book Secondhand Time completely turned my head around and made me realize that I had been writing about Russia all wrong.”
Why: It completely turned my head around and made me realize that I had been writing about Russia all wrong.
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Guest on Conversations with TylerJulia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
“But specifically, I would recommend her book, The Unwomanly Face of War, which is about these teenage Soviet girls joining the fight in World War II as machine gunners, as fighter pilots, as paratroopers.”
Why: It's an absolutely extraordinary book.
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Guest on Conversations with TylerJulia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy