Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories
by David Shrayer-Petrov, Edited by Maxim. D. Shrayer
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Pub Date Mar 31 2014 | Archive Date Apr 21 2014
Description
These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory
David Shrayer-Petrov, a well-known contemporary Russian American writer has published twenty-five books in his native Russian, most recently the novel The Story of My Beloved. Maxim D. Shrayer, the author’s son and translator, is the author of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, a 2013 National Jewish Book Award Finalist.
Advance Praise
“The stories collectively bear a tranquil elegance like a Rubens still-life, both of this world and somehow beyond it.” Brian Horowitz, Tulane University
"This collection of richly constructed stories beautifully illustrates the intersecting worlds of Russian, Jewish, and American lives. In doing so, Shrayer-Petrov brings to life the tensions, longings, and ambivalences of immigrants trying to establish themselves amidst the confusions of a new culture, a culture that, at times, seems transitory, without substance, without a past. Interweaving fantasy with a kind of searing simplicity, Shrayer-Petrov brings the reader into this world with stunning clarity. . . . The writing is simply beautiful even in the midst of horror and loss"—Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Trinity University
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| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780815610335 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
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