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The Free World

David Bezmozgis

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#4850 of 8,085 books · #744 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (2011).

It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees - among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks - they await passage to their new homes in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them, and even more so when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passing through at all. On the contrary, they're stuck. This 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: somewhere, anywhere - or Canada, as it turns out.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9781443404006
Topics
Immigration and displacementFamily relationshipsJewish identity and emigration from the Soviet Union

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