The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels Author:Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz (Translator) The first appearance in print in this country of the novels of Nina Berberova -- an 89-year-old Russian emigre already hailed in Europe as a latter-day Chekhov. Berberova captures the physical and emotional details of the lives of European emigres with vivid, wry, insightful precision, and with extraordinary feeling, presenting six unforgettable... more » portraits of the world and lives of these people. Includes:
The resurrection of Mozart; The waiter and the slut; Astashev in Paris; The tattered cloak; The black pestilence; In memory of Schliemann« less