Forget Russia
written by L.Bordetsky-Williams
"A fascinating Story"
"Your problem is you have a Russian soul," Anna's mother tells her. In 1980, Anna is a naïve UConn senior studying abroad in Moscow at the height of the Cold War-and a second-generation Russian Jew raised on a calamitous family history of abandonment, Czarist-era pogroms, and Soviet-style terror. As Anna dodges date rapists, KGB agents, and smooth-talking black marketeers while navigating an alien culture for the first time, she must come to terms with the aspects of the past that haunt her own life. With its intricate insight into the everyday rhythms of an almost forgotten way of life in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, Forget Russia is a disquieting multi-generational epic about coming of age, forgotten history, and the loss of innocence in all of its forms.
Review
Russia and its history always have fascinated me very much. That's why
I really wanted to read this novel.
I really wanted to read this novel.
'Forget Russia' is written very fluently and has strong characters. It is nice to
feel their emotions and the story -
feel their emotions and the story -
about how choices from the past have influences on your present -
it will touch you very strongly! The book is written with lots of dialogues
that's why I give it a 4.5 rating on 5.
that's why I give it a 4.5 rating on 5.
If you like stories about Russia and its history, don't hesitate to buy this book,
it's certainly worth to read.
it's certainly worth to read.
The Author
L. Bordetsky-Williams (aka Lisa Williams) grew up in New York City. She is also the author
of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
(Greenwood Press, 2000) and has been inspired by both of these towering authors.
of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
(Greenwood Press, 2000) and has been inspired by both of these towering authors.
In 2005, she published a book of creative nonfiction, Letters to
Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Books).
Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Books).
She is also a poet and has published three poetry chapbooks:
Sky Studies (Finishing Line Press),
The Eighth Phrase (Porkbelly Press),
and In the Early Morning Calling (Finishing Line Press).
She is a Professor of English and Literary Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
She also has a site, check this link.
BookSirens
I received an advanced copy for free by BookSirens and I'm leaving this
review voluntarily. So, thank you very much for giving me this
splendid opportunity.
Source picture: Book Cover
