Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Saints, Spirits by Teffi princeton extraordinary contrasts

extraordinary contrasts

but I simply can't publish a book that accuses Americans like Cyrus Vance and Francis Ford Coppola of unpatriotic – or even treacherous – behaviour

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Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Saints, Spirits by Teffi princeton extraordinary contrastsThese stories conjure a vanished Russia, where Orthodox Christianity coexists with the shapeshifters and house spirits of ancient folk belief. Celebrated for her sublime wit and graceful style, Teffi here plumbs the darker aspects of psychology, infusing tales of domestic conflict with the occult spirituality that thrived in the country of her youth. A young girl, haunted by the sinister sound of a church bell, resolves to become first a brigand, then