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The last October meeting of the Literature Club was dedicated
to Irina Ratushinskaya whose books have been purchased recently by our
library.
The volunteer of the Library program Irena Krichevskaya told
about the author and her books.
Irina Borissovna Ratushinskaya is a famous poetess and prose writer. She
was born in Odessa in 1954, graduated from Odessa University, faculty
of physics and after she got married in 1979 she lived in Kiev. She started
writing poems when she was a girl; and in 1982 she was charged for remedial
action and some poems 7 years and went to prison camp in Mordovia.
Ratushinskaya described the years of her imprisonment in
the book "Grey is the color of hope".
In 1986 she was released because of Reagan's, Thatcher's, Mitterand's
and upper spheres' of Israel intercession and moved to England with her
husband and after that to the USA. Now she lives in Moscow.
Ratushinskaya issued several poems collections and three novels: "The
Odessits", its continuations "The successors of a minefield"
and "The shadow of portrait".
The novel "The Odessits" is a story about the people
who were just sparkles in the fire of Russian history. This novel tells
stories about three families; one of them was Jewish family - victims
of pogrom in Chisnau. The novel describes the events that took place in
Odessa from 1905 to 1941 when the Great Patriotic War started. "The
successors of a minefield" is about the war years, about occupation
of Odessa and postwar period till 1968 when Soviet tanks occupied Czechoslovakia.
Everybody was listening the story about Ratushinskaya, her
poems and the novel "The Odessits" with a great interest, asked
a lot of questions and wanted to read her books.
Galina Korobkina,
photo by Vladimir Semchuk
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