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C.S Walton was born in London in 1956. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and the London School of Economics. Her occupations have included pavement-painting in Berlin, house-painting in California, selling ice cream in Canada and teaching English in Brazil. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. After a visit to the USSR in 1979 she learned Russian, which helped her to establish herself in a communal flat in Samara in 1993. She was curious to find out what life had really been like behind the iron curtain
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Little Tenement on the Volga
by C.S. Walton
$11.66 (10% off the cover price!) + postage
isbn: 1891053787
Design by Alice Gail-Carter
147 pages
Softcover
Russia/History/Nonfiction.
Books are shipped via the U.S. Postal Service. Expect 2 to 3 weeks for delivery.
Little Tenement on the Volga presents a spellbinding first-person view of tenement life in post-Soviet Russia by the subtle and brilliant C.S. Walton, author of Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass.
"This engaging and amusing account by an English woman of life in post-Soviet Russia shows how little has changed for this nation in transition."
--Booklist
"Walton captures much that's vivid about the hardships, ironies, and small victories of ... contemporary Russia."
--Kirkus Reviews
"This interesting book gives you a rare look at the way it still is -- and why Russian 'Capitalism' is now leading directly to a new and dangerous nationalism."
--Georgie Anne Geyer, Syndicated Columnist and author of Guerrilla Prince, The Untold Story of Fidel Castro
"By the middle of the book, an uneasy intimacy with these complicated, resourceful, not-entirely-likable characters and a fixation to understand their society kept me turning pages."
--Chicklit
"Her narrative is both humorous and tragic; it opens for the reader an untinted window to this mysterious, absurd, and fascinating reality."
--Alexander Babyonyshev, Harvard University
"For anyone interested in the dark side of post-Cold War Russia, Little Tenement is indeed an eye-opener."
--Bill Mithoefer of Bad Subjects
Buy Little Tenement on the Volga with
Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass
Purchased separately: $24.95
Purchased together: $19.95
Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of the Pat Robertson Coloring Book, Living Lost, Even a Daughter is Better Than Nothing, Letters From New Orleans, Best of Temp Slave, Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass, Little Tenement on the Volga, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, the George W. Bush Coloring Book, What the Hell Am I Doing Here? and For Here Or To Go.
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