Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story

by Maxim D. Shrayer

Book Overview

Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610246
• ISBN13: 9780815610243
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"