The Exchange (novel)

	The Exchange (novel) ''The Exchange'' (russian: link=no, italics=yes, Обмен) is a novel by Yuri Trifonov. It is the first volume of Trifonov's cycle of Moscow novels written in "urban prose", and portraying the everyday lives of Muscovite dwellers.Trifonov ''The Old Man'' 0810115719 - 1999 notes p.274 - Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review YURI TRIFONOV (1925-81) is widely regarded as a major Russian writer ... In the 1960s he began the series of works — "The Exchange," Taking Stock, The Long Goodbye, Another Life, and The ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Exchange 1969 novels Novels by Yury Trifonov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yuri Trifonov Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (russian: link=no, Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Childhood and family Trifonov was born in the luxurious apartments on the Arbat Street and, with a two-year interval in Tashkent, spent his whole life in Moscow. His father, Valentin Trifonov (1888–1938), was of Russian Don Cossack descent. An Old Bolshevik and Red Army veteran who commanded Cossacks in the Don during the civil war and later served as a Soviet official, he was arrested on 21/22 June 1937 and shot on 15 March 1938.Far Eastern affairs, Issues 5–6 (Institut Dal’nego Vostoka, Akademimaya nauk SSSR, Progress, 1989) He was rehabilitated on 3 November 1955. Trifonov's mother, Evgeniya Abramovna Lurie (1904–1975), an engineer and accountant, was of half Russian and of half Jewish descen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1969 Novels This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 ** Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. Reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]