Sasha Abramsky books

The House of Twenty Thousand Books (2014)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘White Nights’ (1848).     IN THE LATE 1950s, Mimi’s mother, Bellafeigel Nirenstein, had often sat stony-faced and angry-looking in the front room of Hillway. Her health spiralling downward, she had had to move out of her own home and she spent the last few ...