Cover of The big green tent

Book 2015

The big green tent

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Language
English
Published
2015
  • Social conditions
  • Intellectual life
  • Male friendship
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, historical
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Soviet union, fiction
  • Fiction, coming of age

An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.