Checkovian in its deceptive lightness, Nella Bielski's fiction is a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband Paul, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia, and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag, of parents who loved her. Yet running like a powerful current throughout is the energy of life itself, precious in the details of its very everydayness. Politics are a part of this life, shaping it without ever occupying its centre, like Alexander Levy whose crime it was to invent a simple dream of a tolerable existence. Nella Bielski's novel, like the best of poetry, illumines the ordinary and asserts, against painful odds the value of living.
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Hardback Editions
November 1982 : Hardback
| Title: Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy Author(s): Nella Bielski ISBN: 0-906495-70-9 / 978-0-906495-70-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Writers and Readers Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 1978 : Hardback
| Title: Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy Author(s): Nella Bielski Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy Author(s): Nella Bielski Publisher: Arcadia Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
October 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy/Isabelle Author(s): Nella Bielski ISBN: 1-900850-33-8 / 9781900850339 (UK edition) Publisher: Arcadia Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1987 : Paperback
| Title: Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy (International Fiction) Author(s): Nella Bielski ISBN: 0-906495-71-7 / 978-0-906495-71-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Writers & Readers Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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