The snows of yesteryear : portraits for an autobiography

The Snows Of Yesteryear (1989) Is Gregor Von Rezzori's Haunting Evocation Of His Childhood In Czernowitz, In Present-day Ukraine. Growing Up After The First World War, Rezzori Portrays A Twilit World Suspended Between The Dying Ways Of An Imperial Past And The Terrors Of The Twentieth Century. He Recalls His Volatile, Boar-hunting Father, His Earthy Nursemaid, His Fragile, Aristocratic Mother, His Adored Governess And The Tragic Death Of His Beloved Sister, In A Luminous Story Of War, Unrest, Eccentricity, Folk Tales, Dark Forests, Night Flights, And What It Is Like To Lose Your Home.