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Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
2013, Crown
Hardcover
in English
0307886816 9780307886811
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