Welcome to Rome. It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees - among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks - they await passage to their new homes in the West. But esca[...]
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis is a searing novel about a man whose principles are tested to the utmost extremes. "Impressive...alive to how reversals of fortune change individuals." (Sunday Times). In a small crumbling resort in the Crimea, two men meet after many years apart. Kotler has fled Jer[...]
A debut collection of short stories renders the life of a Russian-Jewish family living in Toronto in vivid detail, covering twenty-three years in the life of Mark, from arguments with neighbors and humiliating social encounters, to his first sexual encounter with a cousin and the death of his grandf[...]
A compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is "self-assured, elegant, perceptive . . . and unflinchingly honest" (New York Times) These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now find[...]
David Bezmozgis föddes i Riga, Lettland, dåvarande Sovjetunionen, men flyttade 1980med sin familj till Toronto i Kanada. Han är i sitt esse när han beskriver de kulturkrockar som liknar dem hans egen familj har genomlevt. I Kanada och USA blev han tidigt hyllad för sina nov[...]