{"product_id":"leaving-russia-a-jewish-story-9780815610243","title":"Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story","description":"\u003ci\u003eLeaving Russia: A Jewish Story\u003c\/i\u003e is 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. Shrayer's remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence. \u003ci\u003eLeaving Russia\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story in which a young Jew's love is unrequited and his heart is forever broken by his homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maxim D. Shrayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815610243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Moscow in 1967 in a writer's family, \u003cb\u003eMaxim D. Shrayer \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor at Boston College and a bilingual writer and translator. Shrayer has authored over ten books, among them, the memoir \u003ci\u003eWaiting for America\u003c\/i\u003e, the story collection \u003ci\u003eYam Kippur in Amsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Holocaust study \u003ci\u003eI Saw It\u003c\/i\u003e. Shrayer's Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters. Visit Shrayer's website at www.shrayer.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40183722246259,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_07145933-79dc-4b09-a6e5-bb0dec8f28f8.jpg?v=1655559005","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/leaving-russia-a-jewish-story-9780815610243","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}