The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) (English Edition)
Rare and modern books
Von Rezzori Gregor
Penguin 2010,
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (Penguin Modern Classics) (English Edition)
Rare and modern books
Von Rezzori Gregor
Penguin 2010,
10.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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- Author
- Von Rezzori Gregor
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- Penguin 2010
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- Dust jacket
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- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
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Description
br. ed. 302pp. The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.
