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book about Russian mothers and daughters
3 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
I read this book a while ago, and while I forget a lot of stuff I read, this was very memorable. In my view, it's about a wide-spread Russian cultural phenomenon: mothers abusing their daughters. I remember I didn't catch it in the beginning and sympathized with the main character (Anna), thinking what a heroic mother and grandmother she was, taking care of her unfortunate grandson, the victim of his mother's (Anna's daughter) neglect. And then it dawned on me: this Anna is terrorizing everyone around her--her daughter, her mother, and her grandson--and is building a monument to herself on top of their remains... There's probably more to the story, but that's what really got to me. This is my favorite piece by Petrushevskaya.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Petrushevskaya has done better
21 Feb 2003
Format:Paperback
Reading Ludmila Petrushevskaya is like snooping around the darkest corners of one's own soul. She mixes the day-to-day reality with urban legends, religious mysticism, dreams, ghosts, you name it. And she is usually really good at it--in this book, however, she sticks with reality, and, I think, shortchanges the reader.
This is a good book, of course. You cannot help sympathizing with the narrator-mother and feeling furious about the irresponsible slut of a daughter (though AA does begin to annoy you with her moralizing as she is reading the daughter's diaries, adding offensive comments along the way about her daughter's sex life). The choice AA must make in the end (and the futility of it) is the perfect finish to this very dark, depressing, at times heart-wrenching book. This book, however, is nowhere as good as some of Petrushevskaya's terrifying short stories.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
One must truly delve into this book to appreciate it.
4 May 1999
Format:Hardcover
The Time--Night is one of the most powerful books on poverty that has ever been written. The reader must look beneath the suface of Anya and her daughters relationship to find the true meaning of the novel. Once you see that this novel is truly about what lengths a woman will go to support her family, and inversily what she must do to protect her own heart in the process. Upon first reading one will want to despise all of the charecters, even little Tima, yet under the surface is a novel about a woman who can not love another person because loves means one must care for he loved one. Anya is unable to provie for any more people so how then can she love them if she can not provie for them. At the core this novel exposes the real struggles that people suffer through when there really is no way out.
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