Akhmatova, Anna: Requiem & Poem without a Hero

Akhmatova, Anna: Requiem & Poem without a Hero

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Swallow Press, paperback

Publication Date: March 07, 2018

Publisher Marketing: Expressing the collective grief for the thousands vanished under Josef Stalin's regime, "Requiem" chronicles Akhmatova's seventeen-month wait for news of her imprisoned son's fate, while "Poem without a Hero" chronicles the transformation of vibrant St. Petersburg into oppressive Leningrad and the pain of those left behind.