Glas 13 : A Will & a Way Pb

In Glas's latest collection of Russian women's writing a new note of resolution and humour is heard.

The heroines range from a wide-eyed child to a 95-year-old sculptress in love with a man 60 years her junior, a noble woman adrift in today's Moscow to an old lady forgotten in an abandoned village, from a gynaecologist to a fairy tale princess.

Meet the women writers of Russia in the 1990s as they write about women unflinchingly facing up to a world of illness, old age, death, madness, and men.