Author: Aaron Hamburger
Publisher: Random House Trade
ISBN: 0812970934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Set in post-Cold War Prague during the 1990s, chronicles the lives and fortunes of an array of characters, including a self-appointed rabbi who runs a synagogue for non-Jews and a would-be socialist trying to rouse the oppressed masses.
The View from Stalin's Head
Author: Aaron Hamburger
Publisher: Random House Trade
ISBN: 0812970934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Set in post-Cold War Prague during the 1990s, chronicles the lives and fortunes of an array of characters, including a self-appointed rabbi who runs a synagogue for non-Jews and a would-be socialist trying to rouse the oppressed masses.
Publisher: Random House Trade
ISBN: 0812970934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Set in post-Cold War Prague during the 1990s, chronicles the lives and fortunes of an array of characters, including a self-appointed rabbi who runs a synagogue for non-Jews and a would-be socialist trying to rouse the oppressed masses.
Faith for Beginners
Author: Aaron Hamburger
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812973208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown–and an epiphany. In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life . . . or at least get rid of his nose ring. It’s not that Helen is concerned about Jeremy’s sexual orientation (after all, her other son is gay as well). It’s merely the matter of the overdose (“Just like Liza!” Jeremy had told her), the green hair, and what looks like a safety pin stuck through his face. After therapy, unconditional love, and tough love . . . why not try Israel? Yet in seductive and dangerous surroundings, with the rumbling of violence and change in the air, in a part of the world where “there are no modern times,” mother and son become new, old, and surprising versions of themselves. Funny, erotic, searingly insightful, and profoundly moving, Faith for Beginners is a stunning debut novel from a vibrant new voice in fiction.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812973208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown–and an epiphany. In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life . . . or at least get rid of his nose ring. It’s not that Helen is concerned about Jeremy’s sexual orientation (after all, her other son is gay as well). It’s merely the matter of the overdose (“Just like Liza!” Jeremy had told her), the green hair, and what looks like a safety pin stuck through his face. After therapy, unconditional love, and tough love . . . why not try Israel? Yet in seductive and dangerous surroundings, with the rumbling of violence and change in the air, in a part of the world where “there are no modern times,” mother and son become new, old, and surprising versions of themselves. Funny, erotic, searingly insightful, and profoundly moving, Faith for Beginners is a stunning debut novel from a vibrant new voice in fiction.
Nirvana Is Here
Author: Aaron Hamburger
Publisher: Mitten Press
ISBN: 9781941110775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain's lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit.
Publisher: Mitten Press
ISBN: 9781941110775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain's lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit.
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Author: Eugene Yelchin
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429949953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429949953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Molotov
Author: Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1574889451
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
More than a top Soviet bureaucrat
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1574889451
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
More than a top Soviet bureaucrat
Stalin
Author: Sarah Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521616539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years--with contributions ranging across the political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era. The volume provides a more profound understanding of Stalin's power and one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521616539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years--with contributions ranging across the political, economic, social, cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era. The volume provides a more profound understanding of Stalin's power and one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.
Bitter Waters
Author: Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 0813323746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 0813323746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.
Stalin's Nose
Author: Rory Maclean
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783011661
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A Tamworth pig, a coffin, two aunts, a battered Trabant and the fall of Berlin Wall: 'Stalin's Nose' is an exceptionally vivid story of a journey from Berlin to Moscow at the end of the Cold War, through an eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past, revealing what life was truly like under totalitarian rule.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783011661
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A Tamworth pig, a coffin, two aunts, a battered Trabant and the fall of Berlin Wall: 'Stalin's Nose' is an exceptionally vivid story of a journey from Berlin to Moscow at the end of the Cold War, through an eastern Europe divested of fear and free to face its past, revealing what life was truly like under totalitarian rule.
What Stalin Knew
Author: David E. Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300119817
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Murphy asks why the Soviet Union was so unprepared for the German attack in 1941. The highly efficient Soviet intelligence services warned Stalin several times about German preparations, but they were ignored. What led Stalin to make such an enormous blunder?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300119817
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Murphy asks why the Soviet Union was so unprepared for the German attack in 1941. The highly efficient Soviet intelligence services warned Stalin several times about German preparations, but they were ignored. What led Stalin to make such an enormous blunder?
Beria, My Father
Author: Sergo Beria
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.