The big green tent

By Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡

Subjects: Social conditions, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, Fiction, historical, Intellectual life, Male friendship, Friendship, fiction

Description: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.