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One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock-Worker
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One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock-Worker is both a comic and tragic saga of a Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish family, headed by an irreverent, no-nonsense eighty-year-old Larissa, whose vitality and life-affirming wit overcomes all the hurdles thrown her way by the Soviet regime. Both...
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One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock-Worker is both a comic and tragic saga of a Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish family, headed by an irreverent, no-nonsense eighty-year-old Larissa, whose vitality and life-affirming wit overcomes all the hurdles thrown her way by the Soviet regime.
Both lighthearted and tragic, this tale of suffering and love takes us to Ukraine, central Russia, Siberia, Montenegro and Canada. The "silent generations" of Soviet history speak through the voice of a woman who is trying to come to terms with the dramatic past of her two countries—Russia and Ukraine—as well as her own family history.
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ISBN: 9781771839662
Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 December 2025
Country: Canada
Imprint: Guernica Editions,Canada
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 449g
Pages: 250
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About the Author
Marina Sonkina is a scholar, a former CBC producer, and the author of several collections of short stories, among them,Expulsion and Other Stories. Having come to Canada as a refugee with two young sons she did not hesitate to help Ukrainians fleeing the war. Her experience at the Ukrainian-Polish border is reflected in her latest collection,Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border (Guernica, 2023). Her most recent book, One Thousand and A Night as Told by Larissa, Construction Shock-Worker, is forthcoming with Guernica in 2025. She lives in Vancouver.
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