THE NAZAROVS (373 pp.)Markoosha FischerHarper ($3).
Mrs. Markoosha* Fischer, Russian-born wife of oldtime Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer, revisited Russia in 1922 and lived in Moscow from 1927 to 1939. In My Lives in Russia (TIME, June 19, 1944), she told how she had changed from an enthusiastic partisan of the Soviet Union into a horrified witness of the Stalinist police state.
The Nazarovs is an attempt to reconstruct, in fictional form, the agony of the Russian people between 1892 and 1942. Mrs. Fischer obviously has a warm heart, an observant eye and an intelligent mind. But fiction is an art which demands more:...
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