The Snows of Yesteryear
Author: Rezzori, Gregor
ISBN: 9780141192734
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 09 Jul 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
'We grew up with the myth of a lost bygone world, golden and miraculous. We were already what later hundreds of thousands of Europeans were to become: refugees, exiles, leaves tossed by the storms of history.'
The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.
ISBN: 9780141192734
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 09 Jul 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
'We grew up with the myth of a lost bygone world, golden and miraculous. We were already what later hundreds of thousands of Europeans were to become: refugees, exiles, leaves tossed by the storms of history.'
The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.
