The Time of Women

Elena Chizhova · 2009 CE · Novel · Russian · Contemporary

Three old women in a Leningrad communal flat of the 1960s raise Suzanna, the mute daughter of a factory girl who has no time for her. Their Soviet pasts and their faith are kept from the child and from the authorities. It won the Russian Booker in 2009.

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