Word: natalia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief technologist of Red October, Natalia Vasilievna Krechetova, introduces Valia Koroleva and Masha Safonova, workers of the chocolate and caramel workshops, to the guests...
...have even better ones!" laughs Natalia Vasilievna. "I have worked here more than 30 years. And during these years quite a few good candy factories have been built in our country...
...LIGHT FOR FOOLS, by Natalia Ginzburg. A brief, near-poetic story of ordinary lives mired in the despair of Mussolini's Italy. Conceived in sympathy and written at the level of simple truth, it is one of the best Italian novels in years...
...Glove Restraint. Though Natalia flees Como, she decides that fate has left her no choice: she is now inextricably linked with her brother. Behind them, the ill-fated pair leave broken hearts and a suicide...
With the exception of Eugene Harden, the characters in Madame Solaria are lightly sketched; Natalia herself seems at times as insubstantial as the rustle of a petticoat. Yet the author of this period piece has a sure feeling for time and place, and for the rigid standards of behavior that made discreet intrigue flourish. The book treats the difficult theme with a kid-glove restraint that conveys the atmosphere of tension mounting to tragedy...