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title: "Big Green Tent, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, January 17, 2017"
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reviews_count: 9
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# Big Green Tent, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, January 17, 2017

**Brand:** ludmila ulitskayajonathan davis
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- **What is this?** Big Green Tent, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, January 17, 2017 by ludmila ulitskayajonathan davis
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent! More people should know her writing
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2017*

Excellent!  More people should know her writing.  Start with Sonyechka and her short stories and then read this.  It’s long but full of interesting characters.  If you want a window into life in the Soviet Union or Soviet Fiction, this is a good book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful read
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2016*

Set in Moscow, the story begins slowly, describing the lives of three young boys, Sanya, Ilya and Mikha who are united together in elementary school by virtue of being perceived as weak in some way. As the perfect target for bullies, the boys each possess a different set of personal skills and attributes but form a united front against the world in which they live. They are positively influenced in life-altering ways by a special teacher when they are teenagers. After high school, their lives branch out and intersect with various other characters representative of evolving Soviet society through the decades of the cold war, the thaw and so-called enlightenment.The author's way of stringing the characters together reminded me of the principle of Six Degrees of Separation (we are all just six people removed from personally connecting with anyone on the planet). The book covers each man's story in a parallel narrative, which can be confusing at times. The common threads are not only the main characters' three-way friendship but the people who move in their individual and intersecting circles. Sanya is the musical one; Ilya is an avant garde photographer; Mikha is a sensitive and caring teacher. Reading the complex descriptions of musical interpretation and poetry was a challenge for me to read so I tended to skip over those parts.Life in the Soviet Union during the last half of the twentieth century was difficult for its citizens who were still under constant threat of arrest or deportation for the most minor infraction of Communist dogma, although not to the degree of the horrors carried out by Stalin. Imagine living in a twelve-foot by fifteen-foot room with three or four family members and sharing a kitchen and bathroom with twenty-five or thirty other people. Such was life in the glorious socialist state. The characters in The Big Green Tent were poor intelligentsia who had to go to the park and sit on a bench in the cold to discuss books, social conditions, politics or just to gossip about friends, for fear of being overheard and misunderstood by KGB agents. The apartments of common people were bugged and regularly monitored which frequently resulted in the police storming apartments and arresting people for the slighted perceived misstep or slip of the tongue. Reading or even possessing a contraband copy of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago could land you in prison for several years.Once I got through the mundane but essential descriptions of their early school years, the book picked up speed and I absolutely could not put it down. It's a shocking indictment of Soviet life, particularly when we consider that the country is now being run by a dictatorial Vladimir Putin, former Chief of the KGB. It explains a lot. The translation is fluid and easy to read, unlike the version of Anna Karenina that I read several years ago. If historical fiction is your thing, then you'll love The Big Green Tent.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Too many digressions and side bars.
  

*by F***9 on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017*

The Big Green Tent starts off interesting and engaging, as we are introduced to three of the primary characters—Ilya, Sanya, Mikha—and learn about their friendship and childhood. Several of the opening chapters give some exposition to these characters and their upbringing, and we will follow them throughout the book, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. One of their teachers inspires the three, and they form a bond or sorts. I felt like the first one hundred plus pages is the best part of this novel—there was quite a bit of engaging aspects to it, as it delves into comraderie, conflict, the pains and struggles of school years and growing up.Perhaps the biggest problem for me about this book is that for long stretches of the plot important characters drift out of the flow of the narrative. I found this distracting because it really kills the entire flow, pace and momentum. While the novel is certainly ambitious, it is a novel that also meanders around way too much, shifting in and out of time periods and places, and focusing on inconsequential or secondary characters and situations for chapters.I can see how The Big Green Tent is an appropriate title, as there is a vastness and grandiose feel to the structure on line with a classic Russian novel. Branching off into several time periods and eras, it follows the lines of different generations of characters. It is an ambitious novel. I has an epic feel to it in that sense.I enjoyed the references to the arts and music and literature, and the classics. It pays homage to all of these great Russian novelists and authors.However, that being said, there are too many sidebars and diversions. The Big Green Tent just feels a bit overwritten and haphazard.

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