Natasha and other stories
By: David Bezmozgis.
Publisher: Picador; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Latvians -- Ontario -- Fiction.; Jewish families -- Fiction.; Domestic fiction, Canadian.; Jews -- Ontario -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Goldfinch was flapping clotheslines, a tenement delirious with striving.
Description: "Natasha is the chronicle of the Bermans, told in stories. In "Tapka," six-year-old Mark's first experiments in English bring ruin and near tragedy to the neighbors upstairs. In "Roman Berman, Massage Therapist," Roman and Bella stake all their hopes for Roman's business on their first dinner with a North American family. In the title story, we witness Mark's sexual awakening at the hands of his fourteen-year-old cousin, a new immigrant from the New Russia. In "Minyan," Mark and his grandfather watch as the death of an Odessan cabdriver sets off a religious controversy among the residents of a Jewish old-people's home." "The stories in Natasha capture the immigrant experience."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Tapka
pagenum: 1; title: Roman Berman, massage therapist
pagenum: 19; title: The second strongest man
pagenum: 37; title: An animal to the memory
pagenum: 65; title: Natasha
pagenum: 79; title: Choynski
pagenum: 111; title: Minyan
pagenum: 127 |; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 149