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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464149103321

Autore

Shrayer Maxim <1967->

Titolo

Waiting for America [[electronic resource] ] : a story of emigration / / Maxim D. Shrayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8156-5180-5

Edizione

[1st paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

818/.603

Soggetti

Immigrants - United States

Jews - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First paperback edition, 2012.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Flight -- pt. 2. Ladispoli -- pt. 3. Baggage.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory.