Waiting For America : A Story of Emigration /

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In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenche...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jews > United States.
Immigrants > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Flight
  • 1. Wienerwald
  • 2. The Manchurian Trunk
  • 3. Rome, Open City
  • Part 2. Ladispoli
  • 5. Rafaella's Rusty Mustang
  • Interlude : The Roubenis of Esfahan
  • 6. The Rabbi and the Pastor
  • Part 3. Baggage
  • 7. Napoleon at San Marino
  • Interlude : Literature is Love
  • 8. Uncle Pinya, Visiting
  • Interlude : La Famiglia Soloveitchik
  • 9. Refuge in Paradise.

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