Name: A Life in a Day: Soviet Life; Brutal, Mundane and Sublime
SKU: 57259246
Price: 16.58 EUR
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Author: Mednis, Hilkka Polvinen
ISBN: 9781910734476

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A Life in a Day: Soviet Life; Brutal, Mundane and Sublime

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hilkka Polvinen Mednis

Publisher

emp3books

Language

English

Pages

108

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x12.7x0.6 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781910734476

Synopsis "A Life in a Day: Soviet Life; Brutal, Mundane and Sublime"

Through the lens of a single day, we are offered a glimpse of the whole life of Hilkka Mednis. One of five daughters of Pauli and Anne Polvinen, Hilkka enjoyed a happy early childhood until her mother died in childbirth. Then, at the age of thirteen, on the invasion of Finland by the Red Army, she, together with her father and three of her sisters were deported to Siberia.On the day she finds out her son, an up and coming ballet dancer, has defected, Hilkka describes her experiences including the interrogation, and, in so doing, we are dipped into the tough, mundane and, sometimes, sublime nature of Soviet life. Whilst the book is set in the past it is very much about determination, grit, bravery and resilience, the Finnish term for which is 'sisu'.

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