A replacement life
By: Boris Fishman
Publisher: One, an imprint of Pushkin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780957548831
Subjects: Russian Jews; Fiction; Authorship; Identity (Psychology); Emigration and immigration
Description: A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has--as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"?High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.