{"product_id":"autumn-in-yalta-a-novel-and-three-stories-9780815608202","title":"Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe powerful voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, \u003ci\u003eAutumn in Yalta \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the achievements of the great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov's fiction examines the forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, and social lenses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Stalinist Russia, the novel Strange Danya Rayev revolves around the wartime experiences of a Jewish Russian boy evacuated from his besieged native Leningrad to a remote village in the Ural Mountains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the title story A\u003ci\u003eutumn in Yalta, \u003c\/i\u003e the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Samoylovich, is sent to a Siberian prison camp because of his ill-fated love for Polechka, a tuberculosis patient. In The Love of Akira Watanabe once again unrequited love is the focus of the central character, a displaced Japanese professor at a New England university. A fishing expedition and an old Jewish recipe make for a surprise ending in Carp for the Gefilte Fish, a tale of a childless couple from Belarus and their American employers. In the tradition of other physician-writers, such as Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, Shrayer-Petrov's prose is marked by analytical exactitude and passionate humanism. Love and memory, dual identity, and the experience of exile are the chief components.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Shrayer-Petrov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 6.34w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815608202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2006 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Shrayer-Petrov, \u003c\/b\u003ea well-known contemporary Russian-American writer and medical scientist, was born in Leningrad in 1936 and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He has published twenty-five books in his native Russian, most recently the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Beloved.\u003c\/i\u003e Shrayer-Petrov's books of fiction in English include \u003ci\u003eJonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDinner with Stalin and Other Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eM\u003cb\u003eaxim D. Shrayer\u003c\/b\u003e, the author's son and translator, is a professor at Boston College and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. His books include \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Russia: A Jewish Story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183719755891,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_90700192-bf41-44f7-9a17-ec4adf737897.jpg?v=1655558886","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/autumn-in-yalta-a-novel-and-three-stories-9780815608202","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}