Overview
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."
- | Author: Maxim D. Shrayer
- | Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 346 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/History
- | ISBN-10: 0815610882
- | ISBN-13: 9780815610885
