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Detail, but I think this part here is slightly off: > Fast forward to March 1998. Saint Petersburg. A cafe next to a canal. Hans is meeting a woman. Nina Shara
by bschne 2y ago
Detail, but I think this part here is slightly off:
> Fast forward to March 1998. Saint Petersburg. A cafe next to a canal. Hans is meeting a woman. Nina Sharanova. A mail-order bride.
According to his Wikipedia entry, Nina was the interpreter involved when he arranged to meet a mail-order bride:
> In 1998, while working in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Reiser reportedly arranged to meet a Russian woman he selected from a mail-order bride catalog.[15] Five months later, he married the pair's interpreter, Nina Sharanova (Russian: Нина Шаранова).[16]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
- adamgordonbell 2y agoInteresting! That I did not know. The book didn't present that way, unless I missed something. Why was a doctor working as a translator I wonder?
- bschne 2y agoDoctors listing themselves in mail-order bride catalogues seems at least as unlikely to me, but admittedly I know nothing about the usual demographics of this phenomenon