Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy’s confessional trilogy and Nabokov’s autobiography,
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet’s rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer’s remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire’s collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet’s rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer’s remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire’s collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.
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Tentang Penulis
Born in Moscow in 1967 in a writer’s family, Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College and a bilingual writer and translator. Shrayer has authored over ten books, among them, the memoirWaiting for America, the story collection
Yam Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust study
I Saw It. Shrayer’s Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters. Visit Shrayer’s website at www.shrayer.com.
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Bahasa Inggris ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780815652434 ● Ukuran file 27.5 MB ● Penerbit Syracuse University Press ● Kota Syracuse ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2013 ● Diunduh 24 bulan ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 5500946 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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