Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem

At the center of Jonathan Lethem"s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women, who cast spells over the men in their lives. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her precocious and willful daughter, Miriam, equally passionate in her activism, flees Rose"s influence to embrace the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. These flawed yet idealistic characters struggle to inhabit the utopian dream in an America where radicalism is viewed with bemusement, hostility, or indifference. As Rose and Miriam grow older and the decades pass - from the parlor communism of the "30s, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, ragged "70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, up to the Occupy movement of the moment - we come to understand through Lethem"s extraordinarily vivid storytelling that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dissident Gardens (Jonathan Lethem)