Word for Word: A Memoir
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About this book
A child of the 1920s Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege spending her childhood in Germany France and Palestine. But when her parents moved to the USSR when she was thirteen Lungina became witness to many of the eras greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends and subjected to her new countrys ruthless systematic anti-Semitism Lungina nonetheless carved out a remarkable career as a translator who introduced hundreds of thousands of Soviet readers to Knut Hamsun August Strindberg and most famously Astrid Lindgren. In the process she found herself at the very center of Soviet cultural life meeting and befriending Pasternak Brodsky Solzhenitsyn and many other major figures of the eras literature. Her extraordinary memoirat once heartfelt and unsentimentalis an unparalleled tribute to a lost world.
