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Baranskaja N. Nedelja kak nedelja
Baranskaja N. Nedelja kak nedelja
| Author | Baranskaja N. |
| Title | Nedelja kak nedelja |
| Description | A Week Like Any Other is a novel by Natalia Baranskaya, first published in the journal Novy Mir in 1969. Its protagonist, twenty-six-year-old Olga Voronkova, works at a Moscow research institute and tries to combine her scientific career, caring for two young children, domestic responsibilities and her relationship with her husband over the course of an ordinary December week. But every journey, childhood illness, shop queue and urgent assignment turns her life into an exhausting race without respite.
Through the everyday experience of one woman, Baranskaya exposes the contradiction between the official image of the emancipated Soviet citizen and a reality in which the main burden of domestic life still falls on women. A questionnaire about declining birth rates, which the female employees are asked to complete at work, acquires a bitterly ironic meaning: the answer is obvious, but the state system is unwilling to hear it. Dynamic, precise and psychologically unsparing, the novel combines literature with social history. |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | Nosorog |
| Pages | 88 |
| Cover | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-5-6055744-4-6 |
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165.00 kr.