Description
"Your problem is you have a Russian soul," Anna's mother tells her. In 1980, Anna is a na ve UConn senior studying abroad in Moscow at the height of the Cold War-and a second-generation Russian Jew raised on a calamitous family history of abandonment, Czarist-era pogroms, and Soviet-style terror. As Anna dodges date rapists, KGB agents, and smooth-talking black marketeers while navigating an alien culture for the first time, she must come to terms with the aspects of the past that haunt her own life. With its intricate insight into the everyday rhythms of an almost forgotten way of life in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, Forget Russia is a disquieting multi-generational epic about coming of age, forgotten history, and the loss of innocence in all of its forms.
Author: L. Bordetsky-Williams
Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781732848047
ISBN10: 1732848041
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Historical | General