Word for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in...

Word for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia Lungina, Lilianna; Dorman, Oleg; Gannon, Polly and Moore, A.\n\nProduct Overview\nA child of the 1920s, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege,\nspending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when her parents\nmoved to the USSR when she was thirteen, Lungina became witness to many of the\nera\u2019s greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB\nheadquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends, and subjected to her new\ncountry\u2019s ruthless, systematic anti-Semitism, Lungina nonetheless carved out a\nremarkable career as a translator who introduced hundreds of thousands of\nSoviet readers to Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, and, most famously, Astrid\nLindgren. In the process, she found herself at the very center of Soviet\ncultural life, meeting and befriending Pasternak, Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and\nmany other major figures of the era\u2019s l-