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Sofia Petrovna
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A young woman might live happily in Leningrad in the 1930's, even though she was widowed. Sofia Petrovna landed a job in a publishing house and so could send her son to school. He finished school and started up the ladder of a promising career in engineering. Suddenly he was arrested. It turned out that he was a 'wrecker' - he must be a 'wrecker', for the prosecutor had a full signed confession from him. People don't get arrested unless they are guilty - not in the Soviet Union! The head of the publishing house, the head of the printing works, the family doctor were in turn areested as 'wreckers'.
Little by little, however, as she stood in nightlong queues to get news of her son and try to establish his innocence, Sofia Petrovna learnt that you are not guilty just because the NKVD have arrested you. But their neighbour's eyes she was the mother of a delinquent. A whispering campaign started. At work the finger was pointed at her. She had to resign her job and looked in vain for other work. As malnutrition gained ground in her she retreated into a lonely twilight world of fantasy.
An earlier version of this book was published in 1967 under the title The Deserted House.
Lydia Chukovskaya - Personal Name
F CHU Sof
2717417
UK
Book - Paperback
Collins Harvil
128
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