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Yelena Akhtiorskaya and
Stefan Rudnicki (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
July 31, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781483008318
ISBN-10
1483008312
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 6 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]
A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. - - In this tale of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the experience of a single family artfully reflects the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought. The dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past is always within reach? - - If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family's youngest, Frida, can only look back. - - In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: a searing portrait of hope and ambition and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself and its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.
A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. - - In this tale of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the experience of a single family artfully reflects the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought. The dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past is always within reach? - - If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family's youngest, Frida, can only look back. - - In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: a searing portrait of hope and ambition and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself and its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.
Editions
Hardcover
from Riverhead Books (July 31, 2014)
9781594632143 | details & prices | 307 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.94 lbs | List price $27.95
About: A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
About: A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
With Scot Ober |
from Houghton Mifflin (November 1, 1991); titled "Contemporary Business Communications"
9780395512111 | details & prices | 8.75 × 11.50 × 1.00 in. | 3.65 lbs | List price $52.76
This edition also contains Contemporary Business Communications
This edition also contains Contemporary Business Communications
Paperback
Reprint edition from Riverhead Books (August 4, 2015)
9781594633829 | details & prices | 307 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word
With Stefan Rudnicki (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (July 31, 2014)
9781483008301 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.95
The price comparison is for this edition
With Stefan Rudnicki (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (July 31, 2014)
9781483008318 | details & prices | 5.50 × 6.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $34.95
About: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
About: [Read by Stefan Rudnicki]A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
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