Medea and Her Children -- Ludmila Ulitskaya, Paperback

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pure-blooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family, which gathers each spring and summer at her home. There are her nieces (sexy Nike and shy Masha), her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea's devotion to the Crimea), and their friends. In this single summer, the languor of love will permeate the Crimean air, hearts will be broken, and old memories will float to consciousness, allowing us to experience not only the shifting currents of erotic attraction and competition, but also the dramatic saga of this family amid the forces of dislocation, war, and upheaval of twentieth-century Russian life.

Author: Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 01/13/2004
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.19w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780805211443

About the Author
Ludmila Ulitskaya's fiction has been published in many countries, including Russia, France, and Germany; Medea and Her Children is her second novel to be published in America. She lives in Moscow.