Tender
By: Iosif Rikhter
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Passage Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780991553907
Subjects: Teenage boys; Fiction; Teacher-student relationships; Jews; Antisemitism; History
Description: "Determined to rise above his bleak future as a Jewish boy in 1970s Russia, Sasha is drawn into a subversive intellectual Wonderland by his eccentric teacher, Isabella Orlov. When Sasha succumbs to a forbidden love affair with Isabella, the education he desperately needs--in order to avoid the draft--also becomes his sexual awakening"--Publisher description