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Item specifics
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- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525511903
ISBN-13
9780525511908
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28050076668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Something Unbelievable : a Novel
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-014097
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Kuznetsova follows up her dazzling debut, Oksana, Behave!, with another lively tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter. . . . An introspective look at the stages of life and what means the most at each phase, Kuznetsova's second outing is an emotional powerhouse." -- Booklist (starred review) "Maria Kuznetsova's Something Unbelievable is a high-wire feat of imagination and heart, told by two unforgettable women. It deftly chronicles the blurry days of new motherhood, the way our family stories echo across generations, and the messy power of matrilineal bonds with wisdom and tenderness and hard-won humor. I loved it." --Julie Buntin, author of Marlena "From the very first page, Kuznetsova had me laughing out loud at eighty-something Larissa's acerbic, delicious wit, which rendered the retelling of her family's suffering during World War II even more devastating. The novel offers a fresh perspective on dual-timeline war stories--one that's both haunting and hilarious--a feat that only a writer of Kuznetsova's caliber could pull off." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue "Something Unbelievable is fresh, funny, and filled with messy family dynamics. What a delightful novel." --Diksha Basu, author of The Windfall and Destination Wedding "Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step. It is one more testament to Maria Kuznetsova's extraordinary talent. You'll read it hardly believing such a good book could be--yet here it is in your hands! Believe!" --Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award Finalist Disappearing Earth "Maria Kuznetsova has written a vibrant, beautiful novel that takes us from a wartime village in Ukraine to modern-day New York City, from a stubborn, hilarious old woman to her exhausted, cynical granddaughter. It's a story told by two very different women, in very different stages and places of life, bound together by their love for each other. It is a funny, deeply moving novel." --Anton DiSclafani, national bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls "A portrait of family love in all its variations . . . compelling." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Kuznetsova follows up her dazzling debut, Oksana, Behave!, with another lively tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter. . . . An introspective look at the stages of life and what means the most at each phase, Kuznetsova's second outing is an emotional powerhouse." -- Booklist (starred review) " Something Unbelievable is a high-wire feat of imagination and heart, told by two unforgettable women. It deftly chronicles the blurry days of new motherhood, the way our family stories echo across generations, and the messy power of matrilineal bonds with wisdom and tenderness and hard-won humor. I loved it." --Julie Buntin, author of Marlena " Something Unbelievable is fresh, funny, and filled with messy family dynamics. What a delightful novel." --Diksha Basu, author of The Windfall and Destination Wedding " Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step. It is one more testament to Maria Kuznetsova's extraordinary talent. You'll read it hardly believing such a good book could be--yet here it is in your hands! Believe!" --Julia Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth "Maria Kuznetsova has written a vibrant, beautiful novel that takes us from a wartime village in Ukraine to modern-day New York City, from a stubborn, hilarious old woman to her exhausted, cynical granddaughter. It's a story told by two very different women, in very different stages and places of life, bound together by their love for each other. It is a funny, deeply moving novel." --Anton DiSclafani, bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls "A portrait of family love in all its variations . . . compelling." -- Kirkus Reviews "From the very first page, Kuznetsova had me laughing out loud at eighty-something Larissa's acerbic, delicious wit, which rendered the retelling of her family's suffering during World War II even more devastating." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, "Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step. It is one more testament to Maria Kuznetsova's extraordinary talent. You'll read it hardly believing such a good book could be--yet here it is in your hands! Believe!" --Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award Finalist Disappearing Earth, "From the very first page, Kuznetsova had me laughing out loud at eighty-something Larissa's acerbic, delicious wit, which rendered the retelling of her family's suffering during World War II even more devastating. The novel offers a fresh perspective on dual-timeline war stories--one that's both haunting and hilarious--a feat that only a writer of Kuznetsova's caliber could pull off." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue "Something Unbelievable is fresh, funny, and filled with messy family dynamics. What a delightful novel." --Diksha Basu, author of The Windfall and Destination Wedding "Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step. It is one more testament to Maria Kuznetsova's extraordinary talent. You'll read it hardly believing such a good book could be--yet here it is in your hands! Believe!" --Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award Finalist Disappearing Earth "Maria Kuznetsova has written a vibrant, beautiful novel that takes us from a wartime village in Ukraine to modern-day New York City, from a stubborn, hilarious old woman to her exhausted, cynical granddaughter. It's a story told by two very different women, in very different stages and places of life, bound together by their love for each other. It is a funny, deeply moving novel." --Anton DiSclafani, national bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, "Droll and hilarious . . . able to blend the funny and the heartbreaking beautifully together . . . Though Larissa's and Natasha's stories are wildly different, they share an irreverence and a longing for something more, and they echo each other in their explorations of obligation and desire, of envy and disappointment, of art and contentment, and the possible incompatibility of the two. With Something Unbelievable, Kuznetsova movingly makes a case for the significance of the everyday . . . how unspectacular moments can transcend their confines, how miraculous the ordinary can be." -- The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully rich . . . Kuznetsova's humor shines through Larissa's voice, and she always balances the pathos with the humor, again an echo of many of the Russian masters. . . . The freshness of such a voice makes it come alive as it is told." --Ploughshares "Kuznetsova expertly weaves multiple narratives into a vivid tapestry teeming with histories and places, generations and time. The unbelievable in these characters' lives is the everyday. It is beauty, such as the changing colors in the sky, but it is also human frailty: the cheating, the lying, the stealing. And it is also the primeval connection, the conditional love that can only be guaranteed by the family." -- The Moscow Times " Something Unbelievable is a high-wire feat of imagination and heart, told by two unforgettable women. It deftly chronicles the blurry days of new motherhood, the way our family stories echo across generations, and the messy power of matrilineal bonds with wisdom and tenderness and hard-won humor. I loved it." --Julie Buntin, author of Marlena " Something Unbelievable is fresh, funny, and filled with messy family dynamics. What a delightful novel." --Diksha Basu, author of The Windfall and Destination Wedding " Something Unbelievable gives you things hilarious, things heartbreaking, things gorgeous and perfect and irresistible on every page. This novel crosses generations, oceans, and empires but never misses a step." --Julia Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth "It is a funny, deeply moving novel." --Anton DiSclafani, bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls "From the very first page, Kuznetsova had me laughing out loud at eighty-something Larissa's acerbic, delicious wit, which rendered the retelling of her family's suffering during World War II even more devastating." --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue "An introspective look at the stages of life and what means the most at each phase, Kuznetsova's second outing is an emotional powerhouse." -- Booklist (starred review) "A moving intergenerational story with an unforgettable wartime narrative steeped in literature." -- Library Journal
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
An overwhelmed new mom discovers unexpected parallels between life in twenty-first-century America and her grandmother's account of their family's escape from the Nazis in this sharp, heartfelt novel. "A fresh perspective--one that's both haunting and hilarious--on dual-timeline war stories, a feat that only a writer of Kuznetsova's caliber could pull off."--Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine--tired of everything really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, a struggling actress, and a host to her husband's slacker best friend, Stas, who has been staying with them in their cramped one-bedroom apartment in upper Manhattan. When Natasha asks Larissa to tell the story of her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis in Kiev, she reluctantly agrees. Maybe Natasha is just looking for distraction from her own life, but Larissa is desperate to make her happy, even though telling the story makes her heart ache. Larissa recounts the nearly three-year period when she fled with her self-absorbed sister, parents, and grandmother to a factory town in the Ural Mountains where they faced starvation, a cholera outbreak, a tragic suicide, and where she was torn in her affections for two brothers from a wealthy family. But neither Larissa nor Natasha can anticipate how loudly these lessons of the past will echo in their present moments. Something Unbelievable explores with piercing wit and tender feeling just how much our circumstances shape our lives and what we pass on to the younger generations, willingly or not.
LC Classification Number
PS3611.U985S66 2021
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