Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt
In this urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him. NAMED ONE OF>THE NEW YORK TIMES>CRITICS' TOP BOKS OF THE YEARAlex Halberstadt's quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he 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.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400067060 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400067065 |
| Titel | Young Heroes of the Soviet Union |
| Autor | Alex Halberstadt |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Random House USA Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2020-03-10 |
| Seitenanzahl | 320 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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