A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as[...]

Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, [...]

Konsten att lyckas i det sovjetiska köket

En trång lägenhet där arton familjer delade samma kök - det var Anya von Bremzens barndomsmiljö i 1960-talets Moskva. Hon sjöng lovsånger till Lenin och gjorde svarta affärer med amerikanska tuggummin. Livet var trist och absurt - och ibland [...]