Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story

A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy s confessional trilogy and Nabokov s autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB s persecution of refuseniks, a poet s rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 01/30/2017
ISBN: 9780815610885
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.74h x 6.00w x 0.88d