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Growing up in Whitley Bay, Julie Egdell never realised how much she had in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice. But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice not Tenniel's blonde school-girl, but the dark haired Alisa' of Soviet illustrated children's stories, sarcastic and cruel and very Russian. A new city, a new language and a new identity. What could possibly go wrong? Alice in Winterland is the story of a strange and subversive wonderland, of a worm who thinks he is a caterpillar and the Baba Yaga who became a witch. It's a book about life in post-Soviet Russia, mad hatters, temptations and tears. It is a story of exile, heartbreak, loneliness and longing, about falling down a cultural and linguistic rabbit hole.

Alice in Winterland

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    A Paperback / softback by Julie Egdell

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      Publisher Smokestack Books
      Published 1 October 2017
      ISBN-13 9780995563599
      978-0995563599
      ISBN-10 0995563594

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Growing up in Whitley Bay, Julie Egdell never realised how much she had in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice. But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice not Tenniel's blonde school-girl, but the dark haired Alisa' of Soviet illustrated children's stories, sarcastic and cruel and very Russian. A new city, a new language and a new identity. What could possibly go wrong? Alice in Winterland is the story of a strange and subversive wonderland, of a worm who thinks he is a caterpillar and the Baba Yaga who became a witch. It's a book about life in post-Soviet Russia, mad hatters, temptations and tears. It is a story of exile, heartbreak, loneliness and longing, about falling down a cultural and linguistic rabbit hole.

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