Sonechka

Ludmila Ulitskaya

1992

Almost before she was out of the cradle, Sonechka was a bookworm. As Efrem, elder brother and family satirist, never tired of repeating, “All that reading has given Sonechka a butt like a chair and a nose like a pear.”

Unfortunately, his formulation was not too far off the mark. Her nose really was pear-shaped, and lanky broad-shouldered Sonechka…

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Ludmila Ulitskaya

b. 1943

Born in the Soviet Union, Ludmila Ulitskaya is a Russian novelist and short story author. Trained as a biologist and geneticist, she has also written film scripts and translations, and her writing has been described as deeply humane, morally serious, and of the nineteenth-century tradition. Among Ulitskaya’s many honors are the Penne Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, the Russian Novel of the Year Prize, and the Chinese National Literature Prize.

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