{"title":"Sophia Shalmiyev","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mother-winter-book-sophia-shalmiyev-9781501193088","title":"Mother Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis vividly awesome and truly great (Eileen Myles) memoir follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and the subsequent quest to find her again.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Sophia Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). An imbalance of power and the prevalence of antisemitism in her homeland led her father to steal Shalmiyev away, emigrating to America, abandoning her estranged mother, Elena. At age eleven, Shalmiyev found herself on a plane headed west, motherless and terrified of the new world unfolding before her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow a mother herself, in \u003ci\u003eMother Winter\u003c\/i\u003e, an exploration of heartache and the ways life moves on even after irretrievable changes (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e), Shalmiyev depicts in urgent vignettes her emotional journeys as an immigrant, an artist, and a woman raised without her mother. She tells of her early days in St. Petersburg; her tumultuous pit-stop in Italy as a refugee; the life she built for herself in the Pacific Northwest, raising two children of her own; and ultimately, her voyage back to Russia as an adult, where she searched endlessly for the alcoholic mother she never knew. Braided into her physical journey is a metaphorical exploration of the many surrogate mothers Shalmiyev sought out in place of her own, woven together with lyrical prose... that] splits open like layer after layer of an ornate \u003ci\u003ematryoshka\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMother Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Shalmiyev's years of travel, searching, and forging meaningful connections with the worlds she occupies--the result is a rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism, motherhood, art, and culture, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent, lyrically provocative memoir (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49879068508433,"sku":"GOR013805356","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50163991314705,"sku":"CIN1501193082G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50647167926545,"sku":"CIN1501193082VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51681514750225,"sku":"GOR014348993","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501193082.jpg?v=1750716313"},{"product_id":"mother-winter-book-sophia-shalmiyev-9781501193095","title":"Mother Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Lyrical and emotionally gutting.\" --\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Intellectually satisfying [and] artistically profound.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Mesmeric.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Vividly awesome and truly great.\" --Eileen Myles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable.\" --Leni Zumas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant.\" --Michelle Tea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking lyrical memoir. To understand the end of her story, we must go back to the beginning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Born to a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father, Shalmiyev was raised in the stark oppressiveness of 1980s Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where anti-Semitism and an imbalance of power were omnipresent in her home. At just eleven years old, Shalmiyev's father stole her away to America, forever abandoning her estranged alcoholic mother, Elena. Motherless on a tumultuous voyage to the states, terrified in a strange new land, Shalmiyev depicts in urgent, poetic vignettes her emotional journeys through an uncharted world as an immigrant, artist, and, eventually, as a mother of two. As an adult, Shalmiyev voyages back to Russia to search endlessly for the mother she never knew--in her pursuit, we witness an arresting, impassioned meditation on art-making, gender politics, displacement, and most potently, motherhood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378949034257,"sku":"CIN1501193090G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50385629053201,"sku":"CIN1501193090VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51030850371857,"sku":"NIN9781501193095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501193090.jpg?v=1751307413"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-sophia-shalmiyev.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}