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Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel

Tekijä: Yelena Akhtiorskaya

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"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. 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"-- "The story of an immigrant family living in Brooklyn's Little Odessa, and the obstinate uncle who resists his family's and their adopted country's promise of a superior life"--… (lisätietoja)
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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 17) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
I won this book from Goodreads, and I was very much looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately I just could not get into it. I found both the writing style - lack of punctuation, unfinished thoughts, confusing phrasing, and the unlikeable characters so off-putting that I could not, and quite frankly would not allow myself to spend anymore time on this novel. I made it almost halfway through, but it was just annoying. ( )
  Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
I am not a big poetry fan, and some of Akhtiorskaya's prose gets a bit too poetry-like for my taste, but then again one of her main characters in this novel is Pasha, a poet whose poetry may well have the same vague heaviness and semi-logical feel that the poetry-like bits of this novel exhibit. This novel is very 'Russian', reminding me very much of my college Russian language instructors, and the parts set in the US give an interesting perspective on a subculture of the US that I otherwise am not really familiar with. I enjoyed this book a lot. ( )
  JBarringer | Dec 30, 2017 |
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i kept wondering if this book was translated from another language, since it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Not a lot happened, other than descriptions of members of a family both in Brooklyn and their native Ukraine. I didn't care about the characters, and everyone seemed a little sad. There are positive reviews (including the New York Times), so maybe I'm missing something. ( )
  ennie | Nov 11, 2017 |
I wanted to love this book -- the exquisite writing, the Russian diaspora setting. But the threads don't connect and too few characters are developed. I hope her second novel has more depth and polish. ( )
  sparemethecensor | Jun 3, 2017 |
Very funny and incredibly well written,. I'd have liked a few less verbal pyrotechnics and a little more heart, though. Still, I'll be watching this author for what comes next. ( )
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"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. 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"-- "The story of an immigrant family living in Brooklyn's Little Odessa, and the obstinate uncle who resists his family's and their adopted country's promise of a superior life"--

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