Maria Kuznetsova Livres

The book explores the internationalization of higher education as a key indicator of global integration, particularly focusing on the UK's policies from 1997 to 2010 under the "New Labour" government. It highlights how the UK aimed to enhance its educational prestige by welcoming international students and integrating them into the curriculum. Additionally, it discusses the broader migration strategies employed by leaders like Blair and Brown, emphasizing the promotion of liberal market economy principles and equal access to labor markets and benefits for EU migrants.

When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life--and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting herself in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted (and expensive-to-replace) key to New York City's Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man

Larissa, an honest woman in her eighties, is weary of life in Kiev, except for her cherished granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha, recently a new mother, struggles to juggle her roles as a wife, actress, and host to her husband's unhelpful friend, Stas, in Brooklyn. When Natasha asks Larissa to recount her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis, Larissa hesitantly agrees, hoping to bring her joy despite the painful memories. She shares the harrowing three-year journey with her sister, parents, and grandmother to an abandoned army village in the Ural Mountains, marked by near starvation, a cholera outbreak, a tragic suicide, and a complicated love triangle involving two brothers from a privileged family. As Larissa narrates, both women are unprepared for how these past experiences resonate in their current lives. Through the dual perspectives of Larissa and Natasha, the narrative delves into how circumstances shape our lives and the legacies we pass on to future generations, blending sharp wit with deep emotion.