The Big Green Tent: A Novel, by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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The Big Green Tent: A Novel, by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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The Big Green Tent epitomizes what we think of when we imagine the classic Russian novel.With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya’s remarkable work 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 boys―an orphaned poet; a gifted, fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting secrets―struggle to reach adulthood in a society where their heroes have been censored and exiled. Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB. Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art, a love of Russian literature, and activism. And each of them ends up face-to-face with a secret police that is highly skilled at fomenting paranoia, division, and self-betrayal. A man and his wife each become collaborators, without the other knowing; an artist is chased into the woods, where he remains in hiding for four years; a researcher is forced to deem a patient insane, damning him to torture in a psychiatric ward. Ludmila Ulitskaya’s novel belongs to the tradition of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Pasternak: it is a work consumed with politics, love, and belief―and a revelation of life in dark times.
The Big Green Tent: A Novel, by Ludmila Ulitskaya- Amazon Sales Rank: #59297 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.23" h x 1.84" w x 6.32" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 592 pages
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Named a must-read book by New York magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and BustleAmong the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2015, The Christian Science Monitor
Among the Best Historical Fiction and Best Fiction in Translation of 2015, Kirkus Reviews
Long-listed for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction
"Ludmila Ulitskaya's latest novel, The Big Green Tent, is as grand, solid and impressively all-encompassing as the title implies . . . Ulitskaya's readers will find it hard not to imagine themselves in her characters' place, to ponder what choices we'd make in similar situations. 'Conscience militates against survival,' one of the characters remarks. You can't help wondering which you would choose." ―Lara Vapnyar, The New York Time Book Review
"The Big Green Tent, for all its grand ambition, manages an intimacy that can leave a reader reeling . . . a masterpiece." ―Colin Dwyer, NPR
"This may be the Big Book of the year." ―The Millions
"The Big Green Tent is like the sharp-tongued gossip that flowed in many a crowded kitchen―enlivened by dangerous undercurrents, and never boring . . . you don’t have to be a compatriot to admire Ulitskaya’s honesty and straight-faced irony, or her uncanny ability to marshal endless digressions and intentional stumbles into a gripping tale." ―Leonid Bershidsky, The Atlantic
"A voice of moral authority for differently minded Russians, and one of Russia’s most famous writers . . . [The Big Green Tent is] compelling, addictive reading." ―Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
"One of Russia’s most-read (and increasingly denounced) novelists writes page-turners that just happen to be monumentally important . . . like that other plot-forward dissident, Nobel winner Boris Pasternak, Ulitskaya puts characters first and politics second. According to the oddsmakers, she might follow him to Stockholm one day." ―Boris Kachka, New York magazine
"Ludmila Ulitskaya's latest translated novel, The Big Green Tent, is a compelling testimony to the stifling atmosphere of stagnation-era Russia―and a warning, according to the author, to those Russians who feel nostalgic about the Soviet past . . . Ulitskaya avoids the kind of psychologizing that is a trademark of Russian novel, but she masterfully renders psychology through the language of the body, sensory experience and the shifting voice of the narrator." ―The Chicago Tribune
"With both intimacy and cosmic scope, Russian novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya weaves an engaging tale of a group of cold war-era Soviet friends . . . Ulitskaya’s easy-going manner and sense of humor are attractive and it doesn’t take long to trust she knows what she’s doing . . . The translation, by Polly Gannon, is light and lively, wonderfully devoid of accent or awkwardnesses." ―The Christian Science Monitor
"A very interesting read as Ulitskaya covers with breathless gusto a period of Russian history unfamiliar to most American readers . . . You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll occasionally want to throw the book across the room in frustration―but you’ll keep reading."―Daniel Kalder, The Dallas Morning News
"Often it is achievement enough for a writer to depict a vast array of characters with insight and great sensitivity for each; Ulitskaya does this and more . . . It is undeniable that with this novel Ulitskaya has pulled off a multipronged feat."―Kim Hedges, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
"As the book leaps effortlessly from year to year, character to character, it ingeniously tells the story of a generation that is at the same time in love with and at war with its homeland . . . A delight to read." ―The Harvard Crimson
"The huge cast allows Ulitskaya to lead the reader on delightful tours of all those late Soviet phenomena most fetishized in hindsight: samizdat, underground dissidence, and steamy kitchen conversations about jazz, politics, and forbidden literature." ―Public Books
"[One of] Fall’s most promising new books . . . Ludmila Ulitskaya’s ambitious, newly translated Russian novel, tracks the lives of three young Muscovites from the death of Stalin to the fall of the Iron Curtain." ―Travel+Leisure
"One of the year’s best works of straightforward realism . . . an attempt to reawaken a dissident past." ―Flavorwire
"Ludmila Ulitskaya’s evocative book The Big Green Tent, set in Moscow after Stalin’s death, has just appeared in Polly Gannon’s elegant English translation. It is Ulitskaya’s sixth novel translated into English and as readable as ever." ―Russia Beyond the Headlines
"The popular Russian novelist takes a cue from the greats here, crafting a sweeping novel that’s traditional in structure and scope but modern in humor and relevance." ―Bustle
"Ambitious and absorbing, The Big Green Tent carries its readers into the lost world of Soviet dissidents, and its hold is unwavering. This is a daring and moral work, but it is also, above all, a great story." ―Peter Finn, coauthor of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
"A sweeping novel of life in the Cold War Soviet Union, with plenty between the lines about life in Putin’s Russia today . . . The greatest tragedy of Ulitskaya’s story is that it comes to an end. Worthy of shelving alongsideDoctor Zhivago: memorable and moving." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"For Western readers, the novel's sparkling imagery makes real the drab and dangerous Soviet era, with its scarcities and constant presence of the KGB. The characters are drawn with humor and melancholy yet endowed with hope and a love of literature. A great introduction for readers new to Ulitskaya." ―Library Journal (starred review)
"[Ulitskaya is a] consummate storyteller . . . She can create characters with the best of them." ―The Buffalo News
"One of the most important living Russian writers." ―Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story on Ludmila Ulitskaya
"Ludmila Ulitskaya arrives here not just as a shrewd novelist, but as a wise and evocative artist." ―The Philadelphia Inquirer on Ludmila Ulitskaya
About the Author Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of Russia’s most popular and renowned literary figures. A former scientist and the director of Moscow’s Hebrew Repertory Theater, she is the author of fourteen works of fiction, three tales for children, and six plays that have been staged by a number of theaters in Russia and Germany. She has won Russia’s Man Booker Prize and was on the judges’ list for the Man Booker International Prize.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Stupendous! By LanternRouge A stupendous book -- one of the best I have read in years. Part love affair with great Russia art, music, and literature; part tragic tale of the lives of three boys growing up under the insane conditions of the Soviet Union; part reflection on the human experience -- love, loss, meaning. All wrapped up in a big Russian novel.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A complex story of an era, told in an engaging way By Paul E. Richardson The beauty of this book is not rooted in excellent turns of phrase, like“Both of them felt like milk bottles in the hands of a good housewife, ringing with cleanliness after a good wash.”“Everything incidental had drained from Olga’s face; all that was left was a sharp, naked beauty, and the illness itself.”“Tea and vodka poured out in rivers, kitchens basked in the fervent steam of political dispute, so that the dampness crept up the walls to the hidden microphones behind the tiles at the level of the ceiling.”No, the beauty here is in the steady, comforting accretion of character and detail as the plot builds and develops. It is in Ulitskaya’s onion-layer revelations of new facets of her characters by retelling aspects of the story through differing perspectives. It is like the way you get to know someone over many years: first through one type of interaction, then another, then yet another. Soon you have a suitably complex picture of the individual, yet deep down you know there is much more that will never be revealed.On one level, The Big Green Tent is the story of a handful of young friends coming of age in post-Stalinist Russia, and of the connections, circumstances, and relationships that bind their lives together in a secretive, authoritarian, class obsessed society. Several of them choose a path of dissent, gently urged on by their gifted teacher Victor Yulievich and the informal leader of their “circle” Anna Alexandrovna. Others sell out, emigrate, or hew the loyalist line.But, more deeply, this is the story of the increasingly complex web of relationships between characters, of the hidden motives for one character’s actions that only become clear when we hear the story again, this time from their point of view.Ulitskaya’s storytelling style is plain-spoken, almost laconic, and often you are halfway through a chapter, seeing the world through the eyes of a new character, before you realize you have met this person before, yet only in passing, or only through the eyes of another. It is a deeply affecting style and by the time you get to the end of this wonderful novel, you will feel as if you learned all these characters’ histories not from the pages of a book, but from the edge of a linoleum veneered table in a humid kitchen on the fourth floor of a cozy khrushchyovka.As reviewed in Russian Life magazine.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Life of the Russian intelligensia under years of suppression. By Michael A. Leco You could call it an epic. It is certainly of epic proportion, but it does not follow the traditional form of an epic. Instead of a long narrow view of a subject, this is a long very wide view. It begins with a group of school mates born under Stalin in Moscow. It follows their lives for the next fifty years or so, but it also introduces the lives of their famiies, their lovers, their friends and associates, even their acquaintances. Each character, there must be fifty of them, is carefully examined and his or her story, or even back story is revealed.Some of the characters face persecution at the hands of the state. Some are sent to prison or to the camps. Some are exiled. Some emigrate to the West, to Israel, to America or to Europe. Many of them simply tough it out, doing what they must to survive under a repressive stiffling regime. Some perish.The unifying theme of this extensive opus, is culture, especially Russian culture. Many of the principal characters are involved in the arts, literature, poetry, music, painting. Some are involved in the illicit publication of banned books or underground lierary journals. You really get an understanding of what life was like in an intellectually stiffling environment where suppression and danger were a part of life.The book is interesting and well written, but like much Russia literature, it can become ponderous. It requires effort to plow through it. It is worth the struggle!
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