Ch. Two

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Her grandfather, the painter Lev Linde, emigrated in 1920 from Moscow to New York with his wife Eva and his son Adam. He also brought over a large collection of his landscapes, either unsold or loaned to him by kind friends and ignorant institutions—pictures that were said to be the glory of Russia, the pride of the people. How many times art albums had reproduced those meticulous masterpieces—clearings in pine woods, with a bear cub or two, and brown brooks between thawing snow-banks, and the vastness of purple heaths!

第二章

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他的祖父列夫·林德是一位畫家，一九二〇年他偕妻子艾娃和兒子亞當(dāng)從莫斯科移民到紐約。他還帶著收藏的大批風(fēng)景畫作，要么是沒售出的，要么是一些好心的朋友和不懂行情的機(jī)構(gòu)借給他的——這些畫被稱作俄國的光榮，是俄國人民的驕傲。藝術(shù)畫冊(cè)上曾多少次再現(xiàn)這些細(xì)節(jié)精美的杰作啊——松林中的片片空地上，一兩只幼熊正在嬉戲；小溪兩岸的積雪融化，棕色的溪流從中潺潺流過；還有一望無垠的紫色荒原！