A Foreign Woman
1986
First Published
4.25
Average Rating
158
Number of Pages
After leaving the Soviet Union following a series of unsatisfying relationships, Marusya Tatarovich quickly becomes the center of the Russian community in Queens, New York, but finds that it mirrors in many ways the community she left behind
Avg Rating
4.25
Number of Ratings
3,550
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Sergei Dovlatov
Author · 27 books
SERGEI DOVLATOV (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.
