Book summaryA painter named Alik, one of a group of Russian émigrés in New York City, is dying. His friends gather around to visit and to remember, and his wife tries to persuade Alik--a Jew--to be baptized as a Catholic. All of them personify the intellectual angst of the Old World, which they find curiously irrelevant in the bland American world in which they now live. Media reviews"A perfectly pitched anatomy of the immigrant experience in America: a moving blend of character study, satire, and elegy." |
THE FUNERAL PARTYby Ulitskaya, LudmilaFirst American edition
Book desription: New York: Schocken, 2001. First American edition Fine in Wraps An Advanced Reader's Edition of the first of this Russian's novels to be published in English (first in 1999 in GB). Set in NYC in 1991.
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