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Immigrant Baggage - Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile (Paperback) Loot Price: R443
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Immigrant Baggage - Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile (Paperback): Maxim D. Shrayer

Immigrant Baggage - Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile (Paperback)

Maxim D. Shrayer

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From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him-Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer's autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life's misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history's black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the emigre protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book's six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist's imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd-ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery-and sustained by family love and faith in art's transcendence.

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Imprint: Cherry Orchard Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2023
Authors: Maxim D. Shrayer
Dimensions: 209 x 139mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 978-1-64469-998-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary
Books > Biography > Literary
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LSN: 1-64469-998-2
Barcode: 9781644699980

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