![]() ![]() But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. ![]() For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family's Moscow apartment. They form her biography, from childhood to death. "Forty rooms" is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women's identity, of women's choices, that no modern novel has explored so deeply. ![]() Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel. ![]()
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