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Description edit
A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language -- but... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Marina: Add a description of this character.
- Robert
- Nina Sergeevna
- Natalia Borisovna
- Kevin
- Vera Pavlovna
- Viktor Nikolaevich
- Sasha
- Natasha
- Maria Mikhailovna
- Masha
- Tatiana Vasilievna
- Mila
- Volodya
- Polya
- Slava
- Kolya
- Sima
- Andrei
- Irina Petrovna
- Lenin
- Jo
- Stalin
- Turgenev
- Semyon
- Larissa
- Rita
- Zina
- Tanya
- Lubov Petrovna
- Nikolai Gromov
- Volya
- Muza
- Mama
- Grisha
- Lena
- Kostya
- Lavretsky
- Katya
- Galya
- Dimka
- Ivan Sergeevich
- Lisa
- Svetlana
- Grandma
- Pavlik Morozov
- Elena Gorokhova: Author, main character
- Galina Kuzminova: Elena's mother, doctor and anatomy researcher
- Ilya Antonovich: Elena's father, head of a technical school in Leningrad
- Marina Maltseva: Elena's half-sister, actress
First Sentence edit
I wish my mother had come from Leningrad, from the world of Pushkin and the tsars, of granite embankments and lace ironwork, or pearly domes buttressing the low sky.
Table of Contents edit
1. Ivanovo
2. My Mother's Husbands
3. Vranyo, the Pretending
4. Dacha
5. Lenin and Squirrels
6. Theater
7. Simple Past
8. Mushrooms
9. About Love
10. Human Anatomy
11. Dangers of Big Rivers
12. A Lesson in Russian Classics
13. A Tour of Leningrad
14. Work
15. White Night
16. The Crimea
17. Facilitator of Acquisition
18. Waiting
19. Wedding
20. Farewell
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors edit
- Elena Gorokhova (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4391-2567-0
Page Count: 308
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4391-2567-0
Page Count: 308
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: DK543 G67A3 2009
- Dewey: 947.21085092
Subjects edit
Links to Supplemental Material edit
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