The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (Penguin Translated Texts)

by Gregor Rezzori (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $4.21

  Presents an account of the author's childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.28

  Focusing on a world that vanished in 1938, this is a detailed memoir of Central European life which offers insights into influences that have contributed to recent national turmoil. It centres on the Bukovina - at one time an Austro-Hungarian province, then a part of Romania, and later absorbed into the Ukraine - and describes the family and household that shaped the author's childhood. Gregor von Rezzori's other books include Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and The Death of My Brother Abel .

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $8.29

  Gregor von Rezzori's account of his childhood, recreating the world of Central Europe that vanished in 1938. It sheds a light on influences that have contributed to recent national turmoil. The book centres on the Bukovina - at one time an Austro-Hungarian province, then a part of Romania, and later absorbed into the Ukraine - and, in a series of portraits, describes the family and household that shaped his childhood. The author also wrote Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and The Death of My Brother Abel .

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $13.91

  Presents an account of the author's childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century.