Iossel Mikhail - Love Like Water Love Like Fire - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience We can t stop turning the pages of this book. Ilya Kaminsky New York Times Book Review From the moment of its founding the USSR was reviled and admired demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early harsh and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood dissidence and subsequent immigration are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.
Title: Love Like Water Love Like Fire
Author(s): Iossel Mikhail
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Barcode: 9781942658566
Pages: 304 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/4/2021
Category: Short Stories