The stories in this collection capture the immigrant experience with serious wit, while evoking boyhood and youth, and the battle for selfhood in a passionately loving Jewish family.
David Bezmozgis Livres
2 juin 1973
Bezmozgis crée des récits qui explorent les thèmes de l'identité, du déracinement et de la recherche d'appartenance, faisant souvent appel à un esprit vif et à une perspicacité psychologique aiguë. Sa prose se distingue par un langage précis et une capacité astucieuse à capturer les complexités des relations humaines. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa perspective distinctive sur l'expérience de l'immigration et sur la vie des générations suivantes. Son écriture est perspicace, provocatrice et profondément humaine.
The Betrayers
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Escaping his political opponents in a Crimean resort town, disgraced Israeli politician Baruch Kotler runs into a former friend who had him sent to the gulag forty years prior and must reconcile with his betrayer and his own poor choices
The Free World
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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 escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them, and even more so when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passing through at all. On the contrary, they're stuck. Welcome, then, to the waiting room of your life, and to a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long- suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home: somewhere, anywhere - or Canada, as it turns out.