A Russian Sister: A Novel

In
this witty and colourfully peopled novel, Caroline Adderson effortlessly
plunges the reader into a nineteenth-century Russian tragicomedy. Aspiring
painter Masha C. is blindly devoted to Antosha, her famous writer-brother. Through
the years Antosha takes up with numerous women from Masha’s circle of friends,
yet none of these relationships threaten the siblings’ close ties until the
winter he falls into a depression. Then Masha invites into their Moscow home a young
woman who teaches with her—t...