Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin gifts Michael Marder

Michael Marder

The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine

and the large number of readers are tied to its vivid

the absurd tragicomedy of life for the Moscow intelligentsia during Khruschev's thaw and Brezhnev's stagnation

a thirty-five-year-old Ukrainian language teacher

Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin gifts Michael MarderKlotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna Klotsvog has had quite a life, and she wants you to know all about it. Selfish, garrulous, and thoroughly entertaining, she tells us where she came from, who she didn't get along with, and what became of all her husbands and lovers. In Klotsvog, Margarita