This autobiography tells the story of an indefatigable spirit who survived the Second World War, a doomed marriage, the murder of her father, rape, and the almost endless consternation of family problems. Dr. Murray's story offers a valuable lesson to immigrants in any country, at any age, and deals with the necessity of absorbing one's new surroundings while clinging to one's roots.

Ninachka: The Making of an Englishwoman?

Biographies & Memoirs

Murray, Nina

Community & Culture

Hamilton Books

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

In Greek myth, Alcestis descends to the underworld in place of her husband, a king, so that he may continue to rule the living. After she returns, she and her family live--presumably--happily ever after. But she has seen and learned things no one else knows. Alcestis in the Underworld articulates a poet's personal experience of civic duty: her life in Moscow as a U.S. diplomat, after growing up in then-USSR Ukraine. 
Praise for Nina Murray's Minimize Considered
"These poems--this poet--bear the unmistakable stamp of the real thing." -- Roy Scheele, author of The Sledders and A Far Allegiance
"Reading Nina Murray's work is, in some ineffable way, like turning the pages of your own life. It leaves you in greater harmony with the world and more deeply in touch with its infinite possibilities.... Beautiful writing, a singular book of poems, rendered in precise, crisp language yet, marvellously, managing to produce a powerful visceral, vivid, heart-bound, near-inarticulable impression." -- Mikhail Iossel, author of Every Hunter Wants to Know and contributing writer New Yorker

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Circling Rivers

In Greek myth, Alcestis descends to the Underworld in place of her husband, a king, so that he may continue to rule the living. After she returns, she and her family live - presumably - happily ever after. But she has seen and learned things no one else knows. Alcestis in the Underworld articulates a poet's personal experience of civic duty: her life in Moscow as a U.S. diplomat, after growing up in then-USSR Ukraine.

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Ninachka: The Making of an Englishwoman?

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems