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The Unwanted
"Susanna, George, and their eight-year-old daughter Dina have been lucky so far in these four years since war broke out in their country. Even as their fellow 'minority-sect' neighbors and classmates are murdered or imprisoned, George's loyal work teaching 'dominant-sect' literature has kept them fed and protected. But then the day comes: the university fires George--despite his years of collaboration, he is no longer safe. Left without money or allies, it is time for the family to run. Embarking on a harrowing trip through refugee camps and across the sea, both George and Susanna are forced in their own ways to make sacrifices to keep Dina safe, while Dina fights to understand the chaotic world crashing down around her"--
€ 28,50 -
Savage Feast
The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected. Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate. Savage Feast is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.
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Una vida de repuesto
'Boris Fishman ha escrito una primera novela tierna, llena de matices y, en ocasiones, realmente divertida, sobre la identidad, la conciencia y la lealtad familiar'.JOYCE CAROL OATESAl parecer, Yevgeny Gelman 'no sufrió exactamente' todo lo que debería haber sufrido para poder obtener la compensación que el Gobierno alemán está pagando a los supervivientes del Holocausto. Pero padecer, ha padecido: como judío durante la guerra, como ciudadano de segunda clase en la Unión Soviética y después como inmigrante en Nueva York. ¿Y dicen que no tiene derecho? Quizá su nieto el escritor pueda echarle una mano con ese asunto;Su nieto Slava desea llegar a ser un estadounidense intachable, pero anhela aún más convertirse en un novelista de éxito; lamentablemente Century, la famosa revista para la que trabaja como documentalista, no le da la oportunidad de prosperar. Su imprevista transformación en falsificador de documentos le enseñará que no toda la realidad es cierta ni todas las mentiras una impostura. Arrastrado y confundido por sus propias ficciones, Slava acabará cometiendo un acto irrevocable que, en último extremo, le valdrá para sentir el continente americano como su hogar, pero no sin antes pagar por ello un alto precio.
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Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo
Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with ?a devil in her head? about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life. Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max?adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that ?adopted children are second-class.? At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents?with whom Max's biological mother left him with the cryptic exhortation, ?Don't let my baby do rodeo??Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river. Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents. But it's Maya who's illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.
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A Replacement Life
Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, “didn’t suffer in the exact way” he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has—as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn’t his grandson a “writer”? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him—Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American—but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava’s turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice.
€ 25,00