Russia

The Big Green Tent
by Ludmilla Ulitskaya

Once referred to as ‘Chekov in a skirt’ (to which she apparently had no objections), geneticist and award-winning author Ludmila Ulitskaya now lives outside of Russia. This epic tale following the lives of three school friends in Moscow in the 1950s is based partly on her own life.

Translated by Polly Gannon
Picador, 2017
First published in 2010
ISBN 9781250097446