Waiting for America : a story of emigration /
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 quenche...
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| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st paperback ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Flight
- 1. Wienerwald
- 2. The Manchurian Trunk
- 3. Rome, Open City
- Part 2. Ladispoli
- 5. Rafaella's Rusty Mustang
- Interlude : The Roubenis of Esfahan
- 6. The Rabbi and the Pastor
- Part 3. Baggage
- 7. Napoleon at San Marino
- Interlude : Literature is Love
- 8. Uncle Pinya, Visiting
- Interlude : La Famiglia Soloveitchik
- 9. Refuge in Paradise.