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A review by carmenx9
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
5.0
"A joke is not so funny when you're living inside it. It begins to seem more like a tragedy"
Quietly devastating is one of my favourite ways to describe something, but nothing's deserved it as aptly as Teffi's memoir of fleeing the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. Her breezy descriptions of the mundane and ridiculous aspects of refugee life are humorous in their honesty and make the ultimate acceptance that she and her fellow travelers will never be able to return home hit all the harder.
Quietly devastating is one of my favourite ways to describe something, but nothing's deserved it as aptly as Teffi's memoir of fleeing the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. Her breezy descriptions of the mundane and ridiculous aspects of refugee life are humorous in their honesty and make the ultimate acceptance that she and her fellow travelers will never be able to return home hit all the harder.