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Waiting For America : A Story of Emigration /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012
Édition:1st paperback ed.
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project Muse.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.