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Love like water, love like fire
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Love like water, love like fire / Mikhail Iossel.
ISBN
9781942658566
1942658567
9781942658573
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Bellevue Literary Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
302 pages ; 19 cm
Summary
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 02, 2021
Contents
The night Andropov died
Some of the world transactions my father has missed due to his death on September 14, 1999
Necessary evil
Klodt's horses
Why? Why?? Why???
Sentence
A Soviet twelve days of Christmas
The night we were told Brezhnev was dead
Moscow windows
Our entire nation
Flying cranes
April 1st, sunset hour
First death
The beginning of a long road
Sad
Blue
Almost nine
Life : how was it?
Love like water, love like fire
U.S. border, midnight.
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