Maximum Shrayer - Leaving Russia Book Reading and Signing SATURDAY at noon! - Street Road

Maximum Shrayer - Leaving Russia Book Reading and Signing SATURDAY at noon!

4/1/2014

Maxim will read from his new book 'Leaving Russia: a Jewish Story', a memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB's persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse.

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