I Heard Lenin Laugh
Registered by Safrolistics of Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on 7/21/2009
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Meet Zhenya Gorevich - an irrepressible idealist baffled by life.
In the cut-throat arenas of pre-school spelling tests, teenage football and Socialist Art competitions, he is beset by contradictions and absurdities.
As his eyes open to love, life (and Lenin), he struggles to reconcile his own reality with the world about him: Soviet Russia, where the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable and the truth always negotiable.
So when his mother confesses the unlikely secret of his parentage, Zhenya knows he must go west, find his long-lost father and save his mother from the neighbours' small-minded vitriol. His impossible quest takes him from provincial Vitebsk to Moscow and finally to London and the 1966 World Cup...
In the cut-throat arenas of pre-school spelling tests, teenage football and Socialist Art competitions, he is beset by contradictions and absurdities.
As his eyes open to love, life (and Lenin), he struggles to reconcile his own reality with the world about him: Soviet Russia, where the future is certain, but the past is unpredictable and the truth always negotiable.
So when his mother confesses the unlikely secret of his parentage, Zhenya knows he must go west, find his long-lost father and save his mother from the neighbours' small-minded vitriol. His impossible quest takes him from provincial Vitebsk to Moscow and finally to London and the 1966 World Cup...
Journal Entry 2 by Safrolistics at -- Somewhere in Coventry -- in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, September 24, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (9/24/2009 UTC) at -- Somewhere in Coventry -- in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom
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WILD RELEASE NOTES:
To be released somewhere around Coventry City Centre within the next couple of weeks
To be released somewhere around Coventry City Centre within the next couple of weeks
Never quite got into this one but had a lot on at the time and was not inclined to get into the style of writing. Caught this book for the Bookcrossing table at the Arts and Crafts Fair, Bablake Boys Club, Medieval Spon Street, Coventry (next to St Johns Church) Saturday 15 May 2010 10-5.
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Journal Entry 4 by deckchair at Bablake Boys Club in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, May 9, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (5/15/2010 UTC) at Bablake Boys Club in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom
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WILD RELEASE NOTES: Decided to spend a few days with me. Probably destined for old Windmill in a fortnight if I do nottidy up and get the batches of books mixed up before then
Journal Entry 5 by deckchair at Bablake Boys Club in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, May 13, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (5/14/2011 UTC) at Bablake Boys Club in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom
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craft fair, Bablake Boys Club
Found on the Horsham OBCZ bookshelf