Autumn in Yalta : a novel and three stories
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Type of record: Book
Title: Autumn in Yalta : a novel and three stories
Other titles: Works
Classmark: Manuscripts MS 606/J27 (Leeds Russian Archive)
Creator(s): Shraer-Petrov, David
Related people: Shraer-Petrov, David; Shraer-Petrov, David
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication city: Syracuse, N.Y
Date(s): 2006
Language: English
Size and medium: x, 235 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/498012
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010706499705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-204).
"The voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, Autumn in Yalta brings together the achievements of great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and of the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers. Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov's fiction examines forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, and social lenses."
"Set in Stalinist Russia, the novel Strange Danya Rayev revolves around the wartime experiences of a Jewish-Russian boy evacuated from the besieged Leningrad to a remote village in the Ural Mountains. The young protagonist returns to his native city in 1944 only to confront the devastation of family and the bitter and harsh realities of anti-Semitism."
"In the title story "Autumn in Yalta," the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Samoylovich, is sent to a Siberian prison camp because of his ill-fated love for Polechka, a tuberculosis patient. Returning to reform-era Moscow from Siberia, he seeks to settle scores with his ruptured past. In "The Love of Akira Watanabe," once again unrequited love is the focus of the central character, a displaced Japanese professor at a New England university. A fishing expedition and an old Jewish cooking recipe make for a surprise ending in "Carp for the Gefilte Fish," a tale of a childless couple from Belarus and their American employers."
"Love and memory, medicine and healing, dual identity and the experience of exile are the chief components. This book will appeal to a wide audience - the general reader and especially those interested in ethnic and immigrant literature."--Jacket.
Additional description
With L. Andreyev autochrome on cover
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