Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia | 'Exhilarating... an artful, original and touching account of a year in deepest Russia.' ... fascinated with to this day. by Charlotte Hobson, Charlotte Hobson, Peter Pomerantsev
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia | 'Exhilarating... an artful, original and touching account of a year in deepest Russia.' ... fascinated with to this day.
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Charlotte Hobson, Charlotte Hobson, Peter Pomerantsev
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Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia | 'Exhilarating... an artful, original and touching account of a year in deepest Russia.' ... fascinated with to this day.

Charlotte Hobson, Charlotte Hobson, Peter Pomerantsev

229 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction travel challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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Each chapter is a bonne bouche, possessing its own particular flavour, from sweet to acrid-bitter. Hobson's characters are often wonderfully quixotic and so is the spirit she finds everywhere at this crux in Russia's history. She drinks with derel...

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