Penguin BooksProduct DescriptionThe prizewinning memoir of one of the world??s great writers?? about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia
Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel?the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles?Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel?? her prizewinning memoir?? she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation?of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf?? singing for alms?? and living by her wits like Oliver Twist?? a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the thr