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Waiting For America: A Story of Emigration by Maxim D. Shrayer (English) Hardcov
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- ISBN-13
- 9780815608936
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- Book Title
- Waiting for America: a Story of Emigration
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Transportation
- Item Width
- 163mm
- Item Weight
- 473g
- Number of Pages
- 225 Pages
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In 1987, a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory. An emigration story, Waiting for America explores the rapid expansion of identity at the cusp of a new, American life. Told in a revelatory first-person narrative, Waiting for America is also a vibrant love story, in which the romantic protagonist is torn between Russian and Western women. Filled with poignant humor and reinforced by hope and idealism, the author's confessional voice carries the reader in the same way one is carried through literary memoirs like Tolstoy's Childhood , Boyhood , Youth , Hemingway's Moveable Feast , or Nabokov's Speak , Memory . Babel, Sebald, and Singer - all transcultural masters of identity writing - are the coordinates that help to locate Waiting for America on the greater map of literature.
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Publisher
Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13
9780815608936
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95965806
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waiting for America: a Story of Emigration
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Transportation
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
225 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
473g
Additional Product Features
Topic Area
Social Organisations
Series Title
Library of Modern Jewish Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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