cover image of the book The Tattered Cloak

Haunting… as graceful and subtle as Chekhov.

Anne Tyler, New Republic

The Tattered Cloak

Fictionby Nina Berberova

Translated from Russian by Nina Berberova

First published in Europe in the 1930s and 40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late Russian expatriate writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists range from housekeepers and waiters to shabby-genteel aristocrats and intellectuals––but all are united in a haunting displacement from their pasts, and all share a troubling uncertainty about the future.

Paperback(published June 1, 2001)

ISBN
9780811214735
Price US
14.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
324
Portrait of Nina Berberova

Nina Berberova

20th century Russian immigrant novelist and short story writer who settled in Paris

Haunting… as graceful and subtle as Chekhov.

Anne Tyler, New Republic