Description
| Product ID: | 9781942658566 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Love Like Water, Love Like Fire |
| Authors: | Author: Mikhail Iossel |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Religious and spiritual fiction, Short stories, Religious & spiritual fiction, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Bellevue Literary Press |
| Publisher Name: | Bellevue Literary Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-17 |