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The Russian Interpreter is the second novel by English author Michael Frayn published in 1966 by Collins in the UK and by Viking Press in the US. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1967. Michael Frayn was himself an interpreter in Moscow in the 1950's.
3.46. 191 ratings27 reviews. When a mercurial Moscow blonde and a visiting British businessman conduct an affair through their Russian interpreter it reveals all the deceptions of love and East-West relations. Genres Fiction Historical Fiction British Literature Russia Espionage. 191 pages, Paperback.
6 de feb. de 2021 · 6 February, 2021 / Russia in Fiction. Michael Frayn — man of letters, leading British playwright, acclaimed novelist; also a renowned translator of Chekhov and, less well known, of ‘the Soviet Chekhov’ Yurii Trifonov. Published in 1966, The Russian Interpreter came at the outset of Frayn’s literary career. His second novel ...
The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman...
Follows the adventures of an Englishman, Paul Manning, working at Moscow University. Manning seems to be missing out on real life in his academic seclusion, but things improve when he gets involved with the Russian girl Raya, and with the seedy entrepreneur, Gordon Proctor-Gould.
Set in Moscow in the political world of intrigue and suspicion of the late 1900s, The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn is an international comic drama that brilliantly captures life in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. With a new introduction by the author.
1 de jun. de 2013 · Rereading The Russian Interpreter made me hungry for a fuller autobiography, recounting his own adventures in the Soviet Union. With his brilliant eye for absurdity, it is the land he was born to write about.
