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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

A Memoir and a Reckoning

Alex Halberstadt

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union

A Memoir and a Reckoning

Alex Halberstadt

Paperback | Engels
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An act of literary archaeology... [in] finely wrought prose... melding the genres of biography, history and memoir. The book is more than just an account of one family's ordeals: it is an engrossing account of dictatorship, war and genocide, and how the toxic legacy they left behind has etched itself into successive generations of Soviet citizens.

An act of literary archaeology... [in] finely wrought prose... melding the genres of biography, history and memoir. The book is more than just an account of one family's ordeals: it is an engrossing account of dictatorship, war and genocide, and how the toxic legacy they left behind has etched itself into successive generations of Soviet citizens.

A loving and mournful account that's also skeptical, surprising and often very funny... Lush and moving.

Illuminating, dramatic... It's as if [Halbertstadt's] feelings about Russia were frozen in time when he emigrated, leaving shards of perception that are peculiarly incisive... Majestic writing.

Alex Halberstadt is a magnificent writer. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a beautiful book about trauma and its impact on one extraordinary family, and an incisive, radiant look at the long legacy of suffering and war.

This terrific, gripping book, part family memoir, part history...[is] a superb evocation of the Soviet Union in the 1960s and '70s.

Enthralling... Alex Halberstadt describes the disjunction between his Soviet childhood and his American adolescence with incandescent wit, a sometimes bitter but always compelling nostalgia, and great literary flair. This book is a triumph.



Surprising, sad, funny, and engrossing... This is history as memoir, and vice versa.

[An] elegant testimony to the subordination of human life to the will of an overmighty state.

Fascinating.

This truly excellent book will transform your understanding of what memoir can do.

Alex Halberstadt is the author of the award-winning Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and The Paris Review. He is a two-time James Beard Award nominee and a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He works and lives in New York.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Verschenen
    aug. 2020
  • Bladzijden
    320
  • Genre
    Biografie: historisch, politiek en militair
  • Afmetingen
    216 x 135 x 23 mm
  • Gewicht
    316 gram
  • EAN
    9780224084918
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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