Mute Phone Calls and Other Stories - Ruth Zernova

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Mute Phone Calls and Other Stories, Ruth Zernova, translated from Russian by Ann Harleman, Martha Kitchen, and Helen Reeve, 1961-1991, Russia, SHORT STORIES

"...One story evokes the tragedy of the Spanish revolution; another recalls the climate of anti-Semitism in Russia during the 1940s; a third describes the tensions and dynamics among women in a Soviet labor camp...In "Elizabeth Arden," Ruth Zernova reminds the reader of the connections that take her stories beyond their immediate context: "Jews in America were exposed as Communists; Jews in the Soviet Union as anti-Communists. And once again we didn't suspect that those winds were one and the same; and we wouldn't have believed it if we'd been told...For one and the same idiot wind blows around our little globe, our green spaceship with the light-blue sails."..."

(E.B., p. 257)