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A Week Like Any Other
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A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and Stories - Natalya Baranskaya
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"...The novella follows her through her week as she mends clothing; leaps onto an overcrowded bus in an effort not to be late, again, for work; sweet-talks laboratory technicians into doing her tests; does the communal shopping for the other "mums" in the laboratory; tucks in her children; fights and makes love with her husband; and tries to find time to fill out the questionnaire...Underlying it all is the condemnation of a system that expects women to be both comrades and baby-producers yet has done little to make it possible for these two roles to co-exist peacefully."
(E.B., p. 385)
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