TRAVELS IN SIBERIA -

IAN FRAZIER

PICADOR USA

2011

527 páginas

17h 34m

ISBN-10: 0374278725

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains

In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history--its science, economics, and politics--with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again.

With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known--Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)--to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago.

Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia--a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.

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Li devagarinho , saboreando aquele inglês difícil e posso dizer que tive uma completa aula do que é a Sibéria , com direito à história da Rússia.
Frazier descreveu tudo com maestria , fez buscas incríveis em rotas mirabolantes . Descreveu pequenas vilas e grandes cidades , envcontrou gulags.
Seus fiéis companheiros russos - Sergei e Volodya - foram interessantes personagens.
Gostei muito da descrição da Costa do Oceano Pacífico , e do fato de ter evocado um filme da minha infância passado lá -Dezu Uzala.
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