Lilianna Lungina: 1 book

Book cover of Word for Word

Word for Word

A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

by Lilianna Lungina
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.   In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where...
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