Title: Tender
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
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Jews, Antisemitism, History
Places: Soviet Union
Time periods: 1953-1985