Чужая девочка

by Ирина Мягкова

Memoirs of a theater critic about her childhood and youth in the post-WWII Moscow and about her later life, with an emphasis on development of her professional interests.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Inna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyable book. Miagkova is in love with theater and reading her memoirs made me really feel how interesting it is. She is also a really good writer - there is something light and happy about the book, even when she talks about things that are really not light and happy, like her father's arrest, like a suicide of a dissident teacher Ilya Gabai who was her friend, or like stories of several tremendously gifted artists whose work was made impossible. The author is an optimist and a survivor and this is, in the end, what the reader is left with after reading the book. Beside, of course, the love of theater.