Hope Against Hope by Max Hayward, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Clarence Brown, Joseph Brodsky

480 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging reflective slow-paced

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The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda ...

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