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The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar [Hardcover]

Vanora Bennett (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review; First Edition, First Printing edition (4 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755300637
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755300631
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,035,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Fiona Buckland (Amazon.co.uk), The Bookseller, May 30, 2003

'Part travelogue, part adventure and part history... a wonderful read and a terrifically vivid portrait of contemporary Russia.

Literary Review, August 1, 2003

'Excellent... Informed, funny and flavourful'
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book, by a consummate journalist. Vanora Bennett opens with a touchingly honest description of how she first fell in love with faraway Russia, and her enduring desire to taste real caviar on the shores of the Caspian sea. But this was no romantic search for "the taste of dreams" as it might have been the days of Turgenev or Tolstoy. Bennett's years in Russia coincided with the implosion of the Soviet Union, when the mood was euphoric but highly volatile, where people partied through the night as gunshots re-echoed in the streets. And Bennett was right there at every party; making friends with rogues and gangsters, students and journalists, fishermen and peasant families, as they lived through great hope and terrible tragedy. The book reverberates with their voices, offering a brilliantly constructed mosaic, with perspectives from every stratum of society and every ethnic group. But in addition, threaded throughout, we are offered Bennett's own masterful expostions of Russian political history, which give a lucid context to the cultural turmoil she bore witness to.
This book is a must for anyone with an interest in foreign places, people and food and certainly anyone who wants a crash-course in recent Russian history. But above all, this is a book for anyone who likes to spend time listening to a brilliant, sensitive, funny and humane storyteller. That means you. Buy it.
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Vanora Bennett's new book is truly one to savour. Her effortless, descriptive style is a joy. The powerful yet poignant imagery in the book is breathtaking. And it's just simply a fantastic read. Take it on holiday and enjoy - but it's so much more than that.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Trip Through Post-Soviet Russia 21 Sep 2008
By D. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Based on a 2003 paperback copy.

The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar... The author may be equally obsessed with each, but she spends a lot more words on the "Russia" half of her obsession than with the "Caviar" half. It's an interesting read mostly concerned with the author's experiences in post-Soviet Russia. Caviar makes recurring cameo appearances, but it hardly deserves equal billing with Russia in the book title. I don't regret the $7 I spent on a used copy and the few days it took to work through it, but don't take the plunge here if you are looking for a 275-page treatise on sturgeon roe.

Best line in the book (paraphrasing): If you are asking whether or not caviar tastes good, you are missing the point.
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