Vera leads a dreary life in Paris, tied down by an invalid husband until she travels to the scene of the suicide of a dear childhood friend, where she becomes steeped in memories of how things were an
The Book of Happiness is one of the outstanding novels the great Russian writer Nina Berberova wrote during the years she lived in Paris, and the most autobiographical. "All Berberova's characters-inc
Written in Paris between 1928 and 1940 for an emigrant newspaper, Billancourt Tales is about the industrialized suburb of Paris where thousands of exiled Russians, including Berberova, were finding f
Novels originally published in the 1930s and 1940s reveal the lives and uncertain futures of Russian housekeepers, waiters, intellectuals, and aristocrats exiled in Paris on the eve of World War II.
