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The Snows of Yesteryear

Gregor von Rezzori

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Vaclav Smil recommends it
New, and highly recommended, first-time readings have included von Rezzori (G. von Rezzori: The Snows of Yesteryear and G. von Rezzori: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite ) and Crace (J. Crace: Continent ), and Jean Renoir’s memories of his father (J. Renoir: Renoir, My Father ).

on vaclavsmil.com · 6 Jul 2012 · Report

Anne Applebaum recommends it
Like The Snows of Yesteryear, which is a straight autobiography, it evokes a time and a place that no longer exists.

on fivebooks.com · 5 Mar 2012 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.