The House on the Embankment

Name: The House on the Embankment
Author: Yuri Trifonov

by Yuri Trifonov

Novel examining three generations of a Moscow intelligentsia family during Soviet era

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Yuri Trifonov

Soviet author whose Moscow novellas depicting the moral compromises of the Soviet intelligentsia are among the finest prose works of the Brezhnev era. The House on the Embankment is his most celebrated work.

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