Leaving Russia

Descriere

Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiog-raphy, 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.

Despre autor

Maxim D. Shrayer

scriitor ruso-american · n. 1967

Maxim D. Shrayer este un autor, traducător și cercetător literar bilingv, rus-american, și profesor de studii ruse, engleze și evreiești la Boston College.