Bøger af David Shrayer-Petrov

Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is a modern classic in Jewish literature. It is the first in David Shrayer-Petrov's trilogy of novels about the struggle of Soviet Jews and the destinies of refuseniks.

These fourteen stories by a master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory.

In this collection of stories, love, talent and magic oppose - sometimes vanquish - anti-Semitism, totalitarianism and vulgarity. The Societ stories in the book work as narratives of everyday life, while the American stories offer a sense of an emigre's alienation.

Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, this work brings together the achievements of the great Russian masters, Chekhov and Nabokov and the Jewish and American storytellers, Bashevis Singer and Malamud.