Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience
“We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” —Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book Review
From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons.
Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel’s twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood, dissidence and subsequent immigration, are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.
- ISBN10 1942658567
- ISBN13 9781942658566
- Publish Date 17 June 2021 (first published 4 May 2021)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bellevue Literary Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English