Word: russias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia was the culmination of HIID's fears...
...However, Saradjeff's epilepsy and paranoia gradually caught up with him. After several severe attacks, he was hospitalized. When he began to suspect his doctors of poisoning him and took up drinking ink as an antidote, it was decided that he should return to Russia. The poor man eventually died there in a sanatorium...
Budnitz employs four women as narrators, all from different generations of the same family, who together grapple with the inconclusive questions of human existence. Ilana's narration greets, and scares, the reader first. Ilana is a woman of the old country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes...
...Russia's prime minister...
...reluctance to commit, she gives me the real reason for the misgivings. "It's just so hard because of the timing. I mean for the next month a half, I'm playing Fed Cup in California, and then I go to Japan for two weeks and then to Switzerland, Russia, and Austria. To make major improvements, I really need to put in the time, but I don't want to say no to anybody when it comes to playing. Too many contractual commitments...