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The free world a novel

Summer, 1978. Among the thousands of Soviet Jews who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family-- three generations of Russian Jews. Together they will spend six months in Rome-- their way station and purgatory.

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  • "Free world"@he
  • "The free world"@it

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  • "De tragikomische belevenissen van een joodse familie die in 1978 na emigratie uit Rusland op doorreis in Rome verblijft."
  • "Summer, 1978. Among the thousands of Soviet Jews who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family-- three generations of Russian Jews. Together they will spend six months in Rome-- their way station and purgatory."@en
  • "Summer, 1978. Among the thousands of Soviet Jews who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family-- three generations of Russian Jews. Together they will spend six months in Rome-- their way station and purgatory."
  • "רומא בקיץ 1978 היא תחנה בדרך אל החופש ליהודים סובייטים, ביניהם משפחה של שלשה דורות: הסב קומוניסט מסור; בניהם אחד שאשתו חוזרת לשורשים היהודיים ואילו הוא מחפש הזדמנויות עסקיות; ואחד, רודף שמלות למרות אהבתו לאשתו הלא-יהודייה."
  • "New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching towards peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: Soviet Jews who have escaped to freedom through a crack in the Iron Curtain. Among the thousands who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family ' three generations of Russian Jews. There is Samuil, an old Communist and Red Army veteran, who reluctantly leaves the country to which he has dedicated himself body and soul; Karl, his elder son, a man eager to embrace the opportunities emigration affords; Alec, his younger son, a carefree playboy for whom life has always been a game; and Polina, Alec's new wife, who has risked the most by breaking with her old family to join this new one. Together, they will spend six months in Rome ' their way station and purgatory. They will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with dislocation and nostalgia, with the promise and peril of a new life. Through the unforgettable Krasnansky family, David Bezmozgis has created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era. Written in precise, musical prose, The Free World is a stunning debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great historical scope and even greater human debth. Enlarging on the themes of aspiration and exile that infused his critically acclaimed first collection, Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World establishes Bezmozgis as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers."@en
  • "Shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize It is August 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin and nuclear missiles stand primed in the Siberian silos. The Iron Curtain divides East from West as three generations of the Krasnansky family leave the Soviet Union to get their first taste of freedom. Choosing Canada rather than Israel as their destination, the Krasnanskys find themselves on an enforced holiday in Italy with thousands of other Russian Jewish immigrants all facing an uncertain future. Together the irresistible and quarrelsome Krasnanskys will spend six months in Rome, where they will immerse themselves in the carnival of emigration, in an Italy rife with love affairs and ruthless hustles, with the promise and peril of a new life. Writing in precise, musical prose, David Bezmozgis has created an intimate portrait of a tumultuous era, confirming his reputation as one of our most mature and accomplished storytellers."@en
  • "Welcome to Rome. It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees - among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks - they await passage to their new homes in the West."
  • "Août 1978. À Rome, une famille de Juifs soviétiques attend son visa pour l'Ouest et ses promesses. Pendant six mois, ils sont plongés dans la nostalgie, l'inquiétude ou la soif insatiable de cette nouvelle liberté qui s'offre à eux. Il y a Samuil, le père athée et communiste qui ressasse les pogroms, Emma, la mère dévouée, Polina la belle-fille non juive, et les fils Karl et Alec. Premier roman. --[Memento]."
  • "Roma ba-ḳayits 1978 hi taḥanah ba-derekh el ha-ḥofesh la-Yehudim Soviyeṭim, benehem mishpaḥah shel sheloshah dorot, ha-sav ḳomunist masur; ben eḥad she-ishto ḥozeret le-shorshim ha-Yehudiyim, ṿe-hu meḥapeś hizdamnuyot isḳiyot; ṿe-rodef śemalot lamrot ahavato le-ishto halo-Yehudiyah."
  • "Refusing the Kremlin's order to relocate to Israel, the Jewish Krasnansky family of 1978 Russia makes their way across Italy at the sides of thousands of other immigrants over the course of a culturally rich six months."@en

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  • "American fiction"@he
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Jewish fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "History"
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  • "Il mondo libero"
  • "Il mondo libero"@it
  • "Die freie Welt : Roman"
  • "El Mundo libre"
  • "ha-ʻOlam ha-ḥofshi"
  • "Die freie Welt Roman"
  • "The free world a novel"@en
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  • "De vrije wereld"
  • "The free world"@en
  • "The free world"
  • "Le monde libre"
  • "העולם החופשי : [רומן]"
  • "העולם החופשי"
  • "El mundo libre"@es
  • "The Free World"
  • "Free world : a novel"@en

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