Thought hundreds of pages about the Russian aristocracy described a world utterly foreign from our own? Irina Reyn’s English-language take on Anna Karenina may be refreshingly slimmer than Tolstoy’s opus but the world it describes is no less fascinating. What Happened to Anna K. (2008) features the insular community of Russian-speaking Jewish émigrés from Bukhara in Central Asia, clustered around the Rego […]
