Maidenhair

Description:

Day after day Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from someone else.The reader lives inside the nameless interpreter's head, with the narratives combining throughout.

subjects: Women singers,  Refugees,  Translators,  Fiction,  Switzerland, fiction,  Singers, fiction,  Soviet union, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Roman,  Russisch,  Behörde,  Dolmetscher,  Flüchtling,  Migration,  Russen

People: Izabella I︠U︡rʹeva

Places: Switzerland,  Russia,  Soviet Union