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Giovani eroi dell'Unione Sovietica: memorie e resa dei conti di Alex Halberstadt (-
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN-13
- 9780812978773
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780812978773
- Book Title
- Young Heroes of the Soviet Union : a Memoir and a Reckoning
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Parenting / Fatherhood, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Personal Memoirs, Asia / General
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Information
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 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Alex 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812978773
ISBN-13
9780812978773
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050090911
Product Key Features
Book Title
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union : a Memoir and a Reckoning
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Personal Memoirs, Asia / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds134.93.H35a3 2020
Reviews
"A loving and mournful account that's also skeptical, surprising and often very funny. . . . Confident, precisely drawn imagery . . . will make you remember what [Alex] Halberstadt describes in his own unforgettable terms. . . . A thread that runs through Halberstadt's book is the inheritance of trauma--how 'the past lives on not only in our memories but in every cell of our bodies,' another version of the historical record that gets inscribed into our genetic code. Those parts of the book are elegantly delineated, but it's the unexpected specificity of Halberstadt's observations that ultimately make this memoir as lush and moving as it is." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "I remember being in a bar with Alex Halberstadt almost twenty years ago, talking about our families, when he said, 'Did I ever tell you my grandfather was Stalin's bodyguard?' He hadn't. I suggested that he write a book about it. Not in my most hopeful imaginings could that book have turned out to be as surprising, sad, funny, and engrossing as the one he wrote. This is history as memoir, and vice versa. Describing Russia in the twentieth century as a place where 'the buffer between history and biography became nearly imperceptible,' he made me feel how this is true of all places, for all of us." --John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead "Alex Halberstadt is a magnificent writer. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a beautiful book about trauma and its impact on one extraordinary family, and an incisive, radiant look at the long legacy of suffering and war." --Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City "As a boy, the author of this haunting book immigrated to the United States, changed his name, and turned his back on his Soviet past. As a man, he reclaimed it, wrestled with it, and ultimately faced it head-on. The result is an exploration of family and memory that stayed with me long after I turned the last beautifully written page." --Anne Fadiman, author of The Wine Lover's Daughter "Alex Halberstadt writes honestly and movingly about what is inescapable in a family, the toll pain inflicts on the ones we love, and how that pain echoes across generations. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is many things--including a history of twentieth-century Russia and an immigrant story--but at heart, it's a coming-of-age story in which wisdom is attained through forgiveness and compassion." --David Bezmozgis, author of The Betrayers "Reading Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is an immersion in waters of profound depth and bracing lambency. The light glows in the quiet acuity of the prose. And it shines on vast and dire patterns that transcend the merely personal--the unfathomable hardships that nations and families inflict on people, and how we endure. This truly excellent book will transform your understanding of what memoir can do." --Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, "One of the best accounts examining American humanitarian pursuits over the past fifty years . . . With still greater challenges on the horizon, we will need to find and empower more people like Bob Gersony--both idealistic and pragmatic--who can help make the world a more secure place." --Daniel Runde, The Washington Post "As a government official, I twice had the good fortune to meet Robert Paul Gersony, whose adventurous and consequential life is the subject of a remarkable biography by Robert Kaplan. . . Having seen firsthand how Mr. Gersony improved policy and saved lives, I am grateful that this book will make his example better known. May it become an inspiration for others." --Paul Wolfowitz, The Wall Street Journal "A book to remind us that America has been, and can be again, a force for good in the world. . . . Another important point concerns the importance of idealism in foreign policy. This is an unexpected message coming from an arch-realist such as Kaplan--and all the more powerful because of it. Time after time, he shows how doing good--curbing human rights abuses, aiding refugees, providing relief supplies--turned out to be in America's interest." --Max Boot, The Washington Post "Whether the setting is Mozambique, Chad, Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, El Salvador, or Nepal, Kaplan's writing is unfailingly vivid. . . . The Good American appears at a time when U.S. intelligence agencies are under unprecedented scrutiny, and this broader import of his subject is never far from Kaplan's mind." -- The Christian Science Monitor "The book is more than just an account of one family's ordeals: it is an engrossing account of dictatorship, war and genocide, and how the toxic legacy they left behind has etched itself into successive generations of Soviet citizens." --The Guardian "A deeply personal book, an engaging and subtle piece of nonfiction that's full of history and [Halberstadt's] own wit." --The Paris Review "Alex Halberstadt's Young Heroes of the Soviet Union is a rich bone broth of flavors. . . . Part memoir, part journalistic foray, part historical investigation, part sociopolitical analysis, Young Heroes plumbs all-too-relevant modern Russian history through the lens of Halberstadt's family history, written in Halberstadt's trademark compelling style." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "It's the unexpected specificity of Halberstadt's observations that ultimately make this memoir as lush and moving as it is." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "Not in my most hopeful imaginings could that book have turned out to be as surprising, sad, funny, and engrossing as the one he wrote. This is history as memoir, and vice versa." --John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead
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2019-019658
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