num_pages: 160
description: A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper's, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met 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, the stories in Natasha possess a serious wit and uniquely Jewish perspective that recall the first published stories of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth, not to mention the recent work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, and Adam Haslett.
language: English
title: Natasha and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Natasha and Other Stories
genres: Jewish, Canada, Short Stories, Russia, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Collections, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1859
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Danuta Gleed Literary Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador