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 |
