And as a Russian-born woman of Armenian extraction, who is raised communist, marries a foreigner and travels abroad, Zhanna’s perspective is similarly twofold. The book does a good job of showing the cracks in the various ideologies and political systems it presents. Soviet Russia is both kind and cruel to the Suvorovs. This is a book about many things: communism, capitalism, social change and its human impact, migration, assimilation, repression, freedom, war, peace. Conor O’Clery talks to Rick O’Shea about ‘The Shoemaker and His Daughter’ on ‘The Book Show’ on RTÉ Radio 1 on Sunday, May 9 at 7pm

Source: Irish Independent May 08, 2021 04:05 UTC