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Waiting for America : a story of emigration / Maxim D. Shrayer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: 1 online resource (1 electronict text (xi, 225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815651802
  • 0815651805
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 818/.603 22
LOC classification:
  • PG3487.R34 W35 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Abstract: 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 quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory.
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Print version record.

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.

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 quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory.

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