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A volume that includes an autobiographical novel about a Jewish Russian boy coming to terms with his identity during World War II and three moving and evocative stories about love, medicine, and the immigrant experience. <p>The powerful voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, Autumn in Yalta brings together the achievements of the great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov's fiction examines the forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, and social lenses. Set in Stalinist Russia, the novel Strange Danya Rayev revolves around the wartime experiences of a Jewish Russian boy evacuated from his besieged native Leningrad to a remote village in the Ural Mountains.</p> <p>In the title story Autumn in Yalta, the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Samoylovich, is sent to a Siberian prison camp because of his ill-fated love for Polechka, a tuberculosis patient. In The Love of Akira Watanabe once again unrequited love is the focus of the central character, a

Author

David Shrayer-Petrov

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815608202

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories