FREE WORLD - Brossura

BEZMOZGIS, DAVID

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250002516 ISBN 13: 9781250002518

Casa editrice: Picador, 2012

Riassunto

Refusing the Kremlin's order to relocate to Israel, the Jewish Krasnasnsky family of 1978 Russia makes their way across Italy at the sides of thousands of other immigrants over the course of a culturally rich six months. A first novel by the award-winning author of Natasha. Reprint.

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L'autore

David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973. His first book, Natasha and Other Stories, won a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was a 2004 New York Times Notable Book. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. In 2010, he was named one of The New Yorker's "20 Under 40."

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A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 A "Globe and Mail" Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleSummer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family -- three generations of Russian Jews. There is Samuil, an old Communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his elder son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; Alec, his younger son, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Together, they will spend six months in Rome -- their way station and purgatory. They will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with dislocation and nostalgia, with the promise and peril of a new life. Through the unforgettable Krasnansky family, David Bezmozgis has created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era.Written in precise, musical prose, "The Free World "is a stunning debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great historical scope and even greater human debth. Enlarging on the themes of aspiration and exile that infused his critically acclaimed first collection, "Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World "establishes Bezmozgis as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1250002516
• ISBN 13: 9781250002518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 372