The Free World

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  • Author:
    BEZMOZGIS David
  • ISBN:
    9780241953754
  • Publication Date:
    October 2012
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    368
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Penguin Books
  • Country of Publication:
The Free World
The Free World

The Free World

SKU: 9780241953754
Regular price $30.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    BEZMOZGIS David
  • ISBN:
    9780241953754
  • Publication Date:
    October 2012
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    368
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Penguin Books
  • Country of Publication:

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The Free World is the rapturously reviewed comic-tragic first novel from David Bezmozgis. In the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family - bickering, tired and confused - arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them. It is harder still when their American sponsor lets them down and they find they're stuck. What follows is a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home...
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  • The Free World is the rapturously reviewed comic-tragic first novel from David Bezmozgis. In the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family - bickering, tired and confused - arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them. It is harder still when their American sponsor lets them down and they find they're stuck. What follows is a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home...
The Free World is the rapturously reviewed comic-tragic first novel from David Bezmozgis. In the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family - bickering, tired and confused - arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them. It is harder still when their American sponsor lets them down and they find they're stuck. What follows is a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home...