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"One of the most anticipated international debuts of 2004, David Bezmozgis's Natasha and Other Stories lives up to its buzz with numerous award distinctions and a sheaf of praise from reviewers and readers. These are stories that capture the immigrant experience with wit and deep sympathy, recalling the early work of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth. An exquisitely crafted collection from a gifted young writer."@en
"David Bezmozgis erzählt vom Aufwachsen in einem fremden Land und davon, wie man sich eine Heimat schafft, ohne die eigenen Wurzeln zu verleugnen. Anfang der achtziger Jahre emigrierte David Bezmozgis mit seinen Eltern aus dem sowjetischen Lettland nach Kanada. Sein von der amerikanischen Kritik begeistert gefeiertes Debüt Natascha ist vor dem Hintergrund seiner Erfahrungen als Einwandererkind entstanden. Warmherzig und mit viel Humor erzählt Bezmozgis Hauptfigur, der junge Mark Berman, von den ersten tapsigen Anpassungsversuchen seiner lettisch-jüdischen Familie im Toronto der Achtzigerjahre. Nicht allein eine neue Sprache muss erlernt werden. Werbezettel für die Massagepraxis des Vaters müssen geschrieben und verteilt, neue Kunden durch Hausbesuche gewonnen werden. Ehen werden unter den Neuankömmlingen geschlossen und ebenso schnell wieder aufgelöst, wenn es der Wohnungsfindung dient. Aber auch die Liebe kommt aus Russland, in Gestalt von Marks vierzehnjähriger Cousine Natascha. Mit seinem unverstellten Blick versetzt Bezmozgis Erzähler den Leser in den schrägen und zuweilen melancholischen jüdisch-russisch-kanadischen Familienkosmos, in dem innig geliebt und listig intrigiert wird. In dem Cousinen, Tanten und Onkel auftauchen und wieder verschwinden. Und man ganz nebenbei erwachsen wird. Ein erwachsener Kanadier mit russisch- jüdischem Herz."
"Réunit sept nouvelles inspirées de faits autobiographiques."
"Told through Mark's eyes, and spanning the last twenty-three years, Natasha brings the Bermans and the Russian-Jewish enclaves of Toronto to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence."
"A collection of short stories follows a Russian Jewish family living in Toronto, covering twenty-three years in the life of Mark, from arguments with neighbors to his first sexual encounter with a cousin and the death of his grandfather."
"These are stories that capture the immigrant experience with wit and deepsympathy, recalling the early work of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth."@en
"Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before last May, when Harper's, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, these magazines introduced America to the Bermans--Bella and Roman and their son, Mark--Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Told through Mark's eyes, and spanning the last twenty-three years, Natasha brings the Bermans and the Russian-Jewish enclaves of Toronto to life in stories full of big, desperate, utterly believable consequence. In "Tapka" six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbors upstairs. In "Roman Berman, Massage Therapist," Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first, humiliating dinner in a North American home. Later, in the title story, a stark, funny anatomy of first love, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. In "Minyan," Mark and his grandfather watch as the death of a tough old Odessan cabdriver sets off a religious controversy among the poor residents of a Jewish old-folks' home. The stories in Natasha capture the immigrant experience with a serious wit as compelling as the work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, or Adam Haslett. At the same time, their evocation of boyhood and youth, and the battle for selfhood in a passionately loving Jewish family, recalls the first published stories of Bernard Malamud, Harold Brodkey, Leonard Michaels, and Philip Roth."@en
"The Bermans are Russian Jews who fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto. This is the chronicle of their search for a better life, as they struggle to fit into a foreign urban landscape."
"Semi-autobiografische schetsen over een joodse familie die in 1980 uit Letland naar Toronto emigreert."

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"Domestic fiction"
"Electronic books"@en
"Nouvelles.David"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"
"Short stories"
"Roman canadien de langue anglaise"

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"Natasha and other stories"@en
"Natasha and other stories"
"Natāsha"
"Natascha : Storys"
"Natasja"
"Natāsha = Natasha and other stories"@ja
"ナターシャ"
"Natasha i drugie rasskazy"
"Natascha"@es
"Naṭashah ṿe-sipurim aḥerim"
"Natasha et autres histoires"
"Natasha : and other stories"
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"Natasha"@en
"Natasha"
"Natascha : storys"
"ナターシャ = Natasha and other stories"

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