Russian Literary Series: Lyudmilla Ulitskaya

Saturday, November 21, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAn absorbing novel of dissident life in the Soviet Union, by one of Russia's most popular writers. The Big Green Tent is the kind of book the term “Russian novel” was invented for. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three struggle to adulthood in a society whe