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Mother Winter audiobook
- By: Sophia Shalmiyev
- Narrator: Sophia Shalmiyev
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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Mother Winter Audiobook Summary
“Lyrical and emotionally gutting.” —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
“Intellectually satisfying [and] artistically profound.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
“Mesmeric.”–THE PARIS REVIEW
“Vividly awesome and truly great.” –EILEEN MYLES
“Gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable.” –LENI ZUMAS
“Brilliant.” –MICHELLE TEA
An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev’s flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.
Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story, we must go back to the beginning.
Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where anti-Semitism and an imbalance of power were omnipresent in her home. At just eleven years old, Shalmiyev’s father stole her away to America, forever abandoning her estranged alcoholic mother, Elena. Motherless on a tumultuous voyage to the states, terrified in a strange new land, Shalmiyev depicts in urgent, poetic vignettes her emotional journeys through an uncharted world as an immigrant, artist, and, eventually, as a mother of two. As an adult, Shalmiyev voyages back to Russia to search endlessly for the mother she never knew–in her pursuit, we witness an arresting, impassioned meditation on art-making, gender politics, displacement, and most potently, motherhood.
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Mother Winter Audiobook Narrator
Sophia Shalmiyev is the narrator of Mother Winter audiobook that was written by Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland with her two children. Mother Winter is her first book.
About the Author(s) of Mother Winter
Sophia Shalmiyev is the author of Mother Winter
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Mother Winter Full Details
| Narrator | Sophia Shalmiyev |
| Length | 5 hours 38 minutes |
| Author | Sophia Shalmiyev |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781508284420 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Mother Winter is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Additional info
The publisher of the Mother Winter is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508284420.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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