On The Golden Porch

By Tatyana Tolstaya

Book Overview

Thirteen stories--by the first woman in years to rank among Russia's most important writers--celebrate courage and the will to endure among the people who live on the periphery of society but who dream with a redeeming passion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394577981
• ISBN13: 9780394577982
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A visual art work of words

Her writing is like nothing else "without boarders of fences," the inocences of childhood and the sorrow, boringness of life comes a live like the sun at dawn through her words which blow like the wind across her pages.Magical!!This is a book that expands the mind of what to expect from literature.

A book of great humility, wonderfuly silent

The book was given to me by my writing teacher who I respected greatly. She rarely makes gifts of books; yet I soon understood why she selected it. It is a quiet book with no pretense of art or gallery; for this reason it contains great art and a wonderful gallery of images. To be sure my even reviewing it stikes one with a terrible mistrust--as even now I mistrust what I say. It is the lyrical authority of T.T. which makes me happy to praise it, and I do. Its tastes in subject and angle are supurb. (Thank-you to Lucia Berlin for the present of T.T.)