The latest in the acclaimed alternative travel guide series celebrates every aspect of Russia's most legendary city - essential reading for travellers and lovers of wonderful writing about Russia.
Malcolm Bradbury guides us to the Hermitage
Anna Pavlova describes her school days
Vladimir Nabokov re-lives a Petersburg winter
Helen Dunmore plunges us into the worst of times
Serge Dovlatov shows some ‘different’ Petersburg film-making
Dmitry Shostakovich reveals a musical secret
Truman Capote takes Porgy and Bess to the Soviets
Nikolai Gogol walks us down Nevsky Prospekt
J. M. Coetzee reimagines Dostoyevsky
… over sixty writers on one of the world’s most beautiful and haunting cities.
'Although it was only founded in 1703, St Petersburg holds "more beauty, more suffering, more dreams and nightmares than are packed into cities far more ancient", writes Reyes in the introduction to this evocative anthology. In this latest addition to the superb city-pick series of urban literary guides, Reyes offers ample evidence to back up her claim, including many modern passages translated for this volume.' The Guardian
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city-pick St Petersburg Paperback £9.99 P & P outside UK £4.00
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