Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
Subtitle: stories
By: Maxim D. Shrayer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The library of modern Jewish literature
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780815609186
Description: "Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer's native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: The disappearance of Zalman; title: Trout fishing in Virginia; title: Sonetchka; title: The afterlove; title: Last August in Biarritz; title: A Sunday walk to the Arboretum; title: Horse country; title: Yom Kippur in Amsterdam.