Susan Richards is the author of Epics of Everyday Life,
which won the PEN/Time
Life Award for Non-Fiction and the Yorkshire Post Best First Work
Award in 1990. She edits open Democracy Russia, part of
open-Democracy, the Web site about global affairs, which she
cofounded. After earning a doctorate on Alexander Solzhenitsyn from
St. Antony's College, Oxford University, she initiated the program
of talks, conferences, and debates at London's Institute of
Contemporary Arts and worked as a film producer. With her husband,
the television producer Roger Graef, she started Bookaid, a charity
that sent a million English-language books to public libraries
throughout the Soviet Union.
"It's travel as jaw-dropping performance." --Ben Dickinson,
Elle
"Part travelogue, part contemporary history...the real gems
Richards uncovers are about the parts of the Russian society and
mindset that remained hidden from Western eyes for nearly a
century." --Publishers Weekly "Richards' genial snapshots (of 'Old
Believers' in southern Siberia, and alien sightings at a secret
uranium mine) hint at the multifaceted nature of Russian life but
her cumulative impressions suggest a country in turmoil, with old
and new traditions in headlong collision." --Financial Times
"For a rich portrait of the new Russia, grab this off the shelf and
skip all those biographies of Vladimir Putin." --Thomas de Waal,
Sunday Times (UK) "Lost and Found in Russia is beautifully written,
with arresting images on almost every page. I loved the men lying
stiffly on their wooden bunks in the train like toppled statues. It
is a travelogue as rich and compelling as a novel and, quite
rightly, without a happy ending." --Lesley Chamberlain, The
Independent (UK) "There is a human optimism that shines out of
these hard lives and this loving account of them - an optimism that
defies the rational." --Angus McQueen, The Guardian, Book of the
Week "A patiently crafted glimpse "through a crack in the wardrobe"
of the devastation wrought on Russian society during the turbulent
post-Communist '90s." --Kirkus Reviews
"Brave, moving and extraordinary. Travelling far beyond the usual
travellers' routes, and often at considerable danger and in great
discomfort, Richards has uncovered a world that few of us can begin
to imagine." --Miranda Seymour, The Tablet's Books of the Year 2009
"Once again, Susan Richards gives a rare and wonderful evocation of
ordinary lives in Russia. People fall in love, fall ill, make
money, lose money; some are nobly defeated, some shamelessly
successful. Each one tells us more about the lethal tides of recent
Russian history than years of newspaper reports." --Philip Marsden,
author of The Spirit Wrestlers and The Bronski House
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