Mud and Stars : Travels in Russia
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award 2020
A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides, Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections between then and now.
On the Trans-Siberian railway, at sail on the Black Sea, or while watching television with her hosts in Soviet apartment blocks, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news – a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.
At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler gives a voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia and discovers how the writers of the past continue to represent their country today.
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