{"product_id":"the-girl-from-the-metropol-hotel-growing-up-in-communist-russia-9780143129974","title":"The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age \u003cb\u003eas an enemy of the people \u003c\/b\u003eand finding her voice in Stalinist Russia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel--the setting of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling novel \u003ci\u003eA Gentleman in Moscow \u003c\/i\u003eby Amor Towles--Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In \u003ci\u003eThe Girl from the Metropol Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation--of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"From heartrending facts Petrushevskaya concocts a humorous and lyrical account of the toughest childhood and youth imaginable. . . . It  belongs] alongside the classic stories of humanity's beloved plucky child heroes: Edith Piaf, Charlie Chaplin, the Artful Dodger, Gavroche, David Copperfield. . . . The child is irresistible and so is the adult narrator who creates a poignant portrait from the rags and riches of her memory.\" --\u003cb\u003eAnna Summers, from the Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10215043\"\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143129974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 014312997X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS032000\"\u003eRussia \u0026amp; the Former Soviet Union\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLudmilla Petrushevskaya\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThere Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until They Moved Back In: Three Novellas About Family\u003c\/i\u003e. A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834905624715,"sku":"9780143129974","price":20.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_2551905b-4a8f-4aaa-ab01-ca2cefa73d0a.jpg?v=1755666194","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-girl-from-the-metropol-hotel-growing-up-in-communist-russia-9780143129974","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}