Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett

"The look of the Genenthians in the story came from an attempt to visualize how a race of people who existed in a freezing, snowy environment might evolve to look like. Ursula had always had in her mind that these people would therefore resemble Inuit or Native American people... She described Genly Ai on the other hand as taller, dark-skinned, with an ethnicity that in the distant future would evoke a slight sense of racial mixing. I simply attempted to fulfill Ursula’s wishes and interpret her vision of the characters the best way I could."

try to read it someday

"The Bridge On The Drina" is a masterpiece of literature. Bosnian Ivo Andrić received the Nobel Prize for Literature for this "novel" in 1961. He leads you through the thunderstorms that have been circling over the Balkans for centuries. --(novala)