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Sovetica

Caroline Clark author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:CB Editions

Published:4th Oct '21

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Sovetica cover

These are the stories of one boy's adolescence in the USSR. Sovetica grew from Caroline Clark's fascination with a handful of stereo slides made by her Russian husband in the 1980s. Her unforced retelling of his memories - recorded, translated and transformed - together with the colour and black-and-white photographs bring to the page a way of life that is both humdrum and the stuff of legend.

'Through its focus on food, clothes, and domestic life, Caroline Clark's Sovetica masterfully transforms stories from her husband's childhood and teenage experience in late Soviet Russia into fascinating poems that take us on a behind-the-scenes journey to the last years of state socialism.' - Alexey Golubev, author of The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia

ISBN: 9781909585430

Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm x 5mm

Weight: unknown

64 pages