The snows of yesteryear : portraits for an autobiography
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The snows of yesteryear : portraits for an autobiography
（Penguin modern classics, . Central European classics ; autobiography）
Penguin, 2010
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Blumen in Schnee
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"First published in Germany as Blumen in Schnee by C. Bertalsmann Verlag, GmbH, Munich, 1989"--T.p. verso
"Published in Penguin classics 2010"--T.p. verso
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The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth century. He recalls his volatile, boar-hunting father, his earthy nursemaid, his fragile, aristocratic mother, his adored governess and the tragic death of his beloved sister, in a luminous story of war, unrest, eccentricity, folk tales, dark forests, night flights, and what it is like to lose your home.
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