Recensione:
"This incredibly powerful book slips into your unconscious with charm and warmth and then grabs you by the gut. By the time you reach the end, you’ll have experienced the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life. And you’ll have a lump in your throat the size of Petersburg. With a magical command of language, Elena Gorokhova has painted images on my brain I won’t forget, as if I’d lived those moments myself. Because, somehow, I did." (Alan Alda)
"Elena Gorokhova's memoir of her journey to America is delightful, hilarious and bracingly candid, a memorable odyssey of learning and striving as she escapes from the crumbling old world to a strange and mystifying new life." (David E. Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand)
“Fluid and evocative prose. ... An imaginative writer.” (The Washington Post)
“[An] evocative memoirist building on a fine previous volume ... [Gorokhova] imbues this narrative of the gathering momentum of her assimilation with admirable esprit.” (Elle)
"Russian Tattoo is the story of an immigrant, of leaving what you know and love. It is the story of mothers and daughters--a story of love, forgiveness, and the desire to belong." (Anya Von Bremzen, author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking)
“Self-effacing and candid, yet also deeply observant and as powerfully descriptive as a novel, Russian Tattoo is that rare book written by an immigrant that helps a native understand their country better, seeing it from the peeled-back perspective of a newcomer.” (Russian Life)
“Written fully, laden with emotion.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“If Elena Gorokhova’s splendid second memoir merely conveyed to readers a vivid, almost visceral understanding of the sometimes paralyzing sense of dislocation she experienced arriving in the United States in 1980 from the Soviet Union, that alone would be reason enough to read it. ... Brilliant [and] illuminating.” (BookPage)
“Engaging. ... With wry, unswervingly honest observer’s eye, Gorokhova chronicles the increasing strangeness of her new country. ... This work from a young immigrant’s point of view is both wondrous and stinging.” (Publishers Weekly)
"Russian Tattoo is a page-turner from the start. . . . Gorokhova fills her story of arriving in the U.S. with telling, fascinating details . . . [and] bravely, frankly shares her life." (Eloise Kinney Booklist)
L'autore:
Elena Gorokhova grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, although for most of her life it was known to her as Leningrad. At the age of twenty-four she married an American and came to the United States with only a twenty kilogram suitcase to start a new life. The bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs and Russian Tattoo, she has a Doctorate in Language Education and currently lives in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, on BBC Radio, and in a number of literary magazines.
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