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  The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (Voices from Central Europe) (Paperback) By (author) Gregor von Rezzori

  

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  Short Description for The Snows of YesteryearPresents an account of the author's childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 06 May 2010
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Literary | Autobiography: Literary
  • ISBN 13: 9780141192734 ISBN 10: 0141192739
  • Sales rank: 167,146

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• "The Snows of Yesteryear (1989)" is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.