Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Saints, Spirits by Teffi princeton extraordinary contrasts

extraordinary contrasts

These stories conjure a vanished Russia

The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister picks apart the ways political violence shapes everyone and everything it touches and depicts with extraordinary intimacy the singular and complicated bond between a brother and sister

and Ukraine - three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world

In Putin's People

Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Saints, Spirits by Teffi princeton extraordinary contrastsThese stories conjure a vanished Russia, where Orthodox Christianity coexists with the shapeshifters and house spirits of ancient folk belief. Celebrated for her sublime wit and graceful style, Teffi here plumbs the darker aspects of psychology, infusing tales of domestic conflict with the occult spirituality that thrived in the country of her youth. A young girl, haunted by the sinister sound of a church bell, resolves to become first a brigand, then