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Farewell, Mama Odessa : a novel / Emil Draitser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Draitser, Emil, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Jewish refugees--United States--Fiction.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jewish refugees--Italy--Rome--Fiction.
- Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Soviet Union.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A highly praised new tragicomic novel by prolific writer Emil Draitser, Farewell, Mama Odessa follows the voyage of Soviet Jewish refugees who leave Odessa, Ukraine, to settle in the US"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The Sacred Soviet Border
- One Sultry Evening
- Vicious Circle
- A Late-Night Visit
- The Last Straw
- All Is Lost!
- A Letter from America
- Who's Going to Save Me?
- Water Flowing and Not Flowing
- Strolling along the Broad
- There Are All Kinds of Jews
- We're Going, Going, Going to Some Distant Lands
- Traveling Companion Kisa
- How to Marry Quickly
- There's Many a Slip Between the Cup and the Lip
- Play the Lunar Rhapsody for Me
- The Viennese Divertissement
- More Reliable Than Stock in Coca-Cola
- Survivor's Guilt
- You Go Right, and I Go Left
- All Roads Lead to Rome
- Beating the System
- The emigre Decameron
- The Bratislava Troubles
- Still at the Post-Office
- Maybe We'll Patch it Up?
- How to Get Exiled without Really Trying
- Rome is a Dangerous City
- You Can't Take the Country out of the Country Boy
- The Dangerous Colonel
- Dear Lidia, Dear Ostia
- A Mother's Gift
- It Doesn't Count Here!
- Poor Willie
- Arrivederci, Roma.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-4109-4
- OCLC:
- 1130768382
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