An Evening with Claire

By Gaito Gazdanov

Book Overview

Written when its author was just twenty-six--with the memories of his harsh years in the Russian civil war still hauntingly vivid in his mind--An Evening with Claire is a psychological novel that is both grand and introspective. Gazdanov's fist novel is at once an intimate and sensual account of a young man's coming-of-age, and a tribute to the shattered dreams of the early twentieth century. As Jodi Daynard writes in her marvelously informed introduction, An Evening with Claire "presented pre-revolutionary Russia and the cataclysmic events which destroyed it in a manner both real and wistful, unregretful yet tender."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178227605X
• ISBN13: 9781782276050
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Pushkin Collection
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher