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Divided Twins: Alaska/Siberia
English, Russian
Hardcover
First published November 23, 1988
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко; born 18 July 1933 in Zima Junction, Siberia) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко; born 18 July 1933 in Zima Junction, Siberia) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.
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January 12, 2023
An absolutely breathtaking, beautiful book. The photos are up to par with some of the best nature/landscape and portraiture you might find in vintage National Geographic, and woven as those are between the heartfelt poetry and prose of Yevtushenko—who was born in Siberia, and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2017—they form a compelling picture of two lands, separated artificially (politically) more than geographically. Siberia and Alaska, “divided twins.”
The opening pages cite the Berlin Wall, which would fall only a year after the book’s publication. How sad that thirty years later, again, East and West look to be more starkly divided than ever due to the senseless invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps the dream Yevtushenko had for a reconciliation, symbolized by the sable (an animal) he imagines hopping ice floes across the Bering Strait, can be renewed in the years to come.
At any rate, this deeply personal book is just simply magnificent.
If you can find a copy at your library, or order one online used (as I did), I cannot recommend reading highly enough.
The opening pages cite the Berlin Wall, which would fall only a year after the book’s publication. How sad that thirty years later, again, East and West look to be more starkly divided than ever due to the senseless invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps the dream Yevtushenko had for a reconciliation, symbolized by the sable (an animal) he imagines hopping ice floes across the Bering Strait, can be renewed in the years to come.
At any rate, this deeply personal book is just simply magnificent.
If you can find a copy at your library, or order one online used (as I did), I cannot recommend reading highly enough.
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