Panic in a Suitcase (Signed First Edition) Hardcover - 2014
by AKHTIORSKAYA, Yelena
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- first
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- Title Panic in a Suitcase (Signed First Edition)
- Author AKHTIORSKAYA, Yelena
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 307
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2014
- Bookseller's Inventory # 181518
- ISBN 9781594632143 / 1594632146
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.7 x 6.1 x 1 in (22.10 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Intergenerational relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013038939
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
Summary
In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. 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, its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.
