Book
Happy Moscow
- Author: Andrey Platonov
- Year: 2013
- Pages: 288
Readers on perLibre: 4
Translated and with an introduction by robert chandlermoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier". Beautiful, passionate, moscow chestnova bears her captial's name, and seeks the happiness it promises. She flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her, on a quest for the better life.
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