Notes from the Blockade Saudi Arabia winner of the National Book

winner of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35

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From learning to observe the creatures and beasts within hands’ reach and seeing and hearing the birds and trees of our forests

Notes from the Blockade Saudi Arabia winner of the National BookFrom her experience as a survivor of the 900 day siege of Leningrad, Lidiya Ginzburg has created a remarkable hero in whom she distills the experience of life under siege. Though she depicts the harrowing conditions, the reader takes away an impression of the dignity, vitality, and intellectual resilience of the thinking mind as it makes sense of extreme experience. This classic work of documentary fiction reminiscent of Primo Levi and Albert Camus,