Waiting for America : a story of emigration / Maxim D. Shrayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Jews--United States.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Flight

pt. 2. Ladispoli

pt. 3. Baggage.

Notes:

First paperback edition, 2012.

ISBN:

9780815651802

0815651805

OCLC:

608849464