The Accompanist

by Nina Berberova

Book Overview

A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl's jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689119895
• ISBN13: 9780689119897
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

flawless, compact, and disturbing novella

I'm disappointed that this book is out of print, as it is one of the most beautifully written and translated works I have ever read. It is a story of what people who do for other people or because of other people and the power of personality. It is also a love story, but of an unocnventional type. The narrator/protagonist is not someone that I would normally find interesting, but the author illuminates her life and gives us moments and glimpses of choices that the narrator makes wisely or unwisely and their consequences. Berberova's prose gives us insights into this character using metaphors that have an almost formal beauty and achieves that "aha" moment when the reader finally regards the item, action, or person in a never before seen way.