The Kukotsky Enigma

The Kukotsky Enigma
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 583
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ISBN-10 : 9780810133495
ISBN-13 : 0810133490
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Book Synopsis The Kukotsky Enigma by : Ludmila Ulitskaya

Download or read book The Kukotsky Enigma written by Ludmila Ulitskaya and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The Kukotsky Enigma is a gynecologist contending with Stalin’s prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the tradition of Russia’s great family novels, the story encompasses the history of two families and unfolds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the ruins of ancient civilizations on the Black Sea. Their lives raise profound questions about family heritage and genetics, nurture and nature, and life and death. In his struggle to maintain his professional integrity and to keep his work from dividing his family, Kukotsky confronts the moral complexity of reproductive science. Winner of the 2001 Russian Booker Prize and the basis for a blockbuster television miniseries, The Kukotsky Enigma is an engrossing, searching novel by one of contemporary literature’s most brilliant writers.


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