A Mountain of Crumbs

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A Mountain of Crumbs
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Author Elena Gorokhova
GenreMemoir
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
January 12, 2010
ISBN 9781439125670

A Mountain of Crumbs is a book by Elena Gorokhova first published in 2010. [1] [2] [3] The book is a memoir of the author's early life in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) before she moved to the US in the 1970s. The book's title was from Gorokhova's grandmother, who told her young children not to complain about lack of food and crumbled their black bread and sugar cubes into a "whole mountain of crumbs". [2] Writing in The Guardian, Kapka Kassabova suggests that "one of the book's great feats is to reveal [...] the human scale of this crumbled Soviet world". [1]

It was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during August 2015.

Reception

The book received a 85% from The Lit Review, based on eleven critic reviews, with the consensus being, "A collection of well crafted memories of growing up in Russia, Gorokhova writes beautifully even if the plot is a little meandering. One of Oprah’s Books to Watch (February 2010)". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Kassabova, Kapka. "A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova | Book review". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  2. 1 2 Groskop, Viv. "A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain: review" . Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  3. ↑ Lappin, Elena (2010-02-07). "From Russia, No Love". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  4. ↑ ""A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir" by Elena Gorokhova". The Lit Review. Archived from the original on 29 Jan 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
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