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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
15,40 €
Vintage Publishing
Sivumäärä: 320 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2020, 06.08.2020 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian

'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing

'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator

'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew Solomon

Alex Halberstadt returns to Russia, the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family, in this haunting work of memoir and history.

In Ukraine, Halberstadt tracks down his paternal grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. And he returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history.

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a moving investigation into the fragile boundary between history and biography. As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family's formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suffering, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: Nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens' lives.

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