A review by saraaaa
La steppa by Anton Chekhov

adventurous emotional lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Every once in a while, you'll find a book that has not a single flaw to you. I don't give 5 stars lightly, but this one was that book for me. Seeing the world, a journey, from a child's perspective was absolutely delightful and endearing. The steppe and its inhabitants are described with such a poetic and suggestive style, it completely sucks you in from the very first page. The realism succeeds in its accurate depiction of late 1800s' Imperial Russian society, with its peculiarities and its faults, its preconceptions and its genuineness, without ever using the – in my opinion unnecessary – extreme crudeness of other contemporary authors.