{"product_id":"autumn-in-yalta-a-novel-and-three-stories-hardcover","title":"Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Shrayer-Petrov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaxim D. Shrayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe powerful voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, \u003ci\u003eAutumn in Yalta \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the achievements of the great Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jewish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Shrayer-Petrov's fiction examines the forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, and social lenses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in Stalinist Russia, the novel Strange Danya Rayev revolves around the wartime experiences of a Jewish Russian boy evacuated from his besieged native Leningrad to a remote village in the Ural Mountains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the title story A\u003ci\u003eutumn in Yalta, \u003c\/i\u003e the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Samoylovich, is sent to a Siberian prison camp because of his ill-fated love for Polechka, a tuberculosis patient. In The Love of Akira Watanabe once again unrequited love is the focus of the central character, a displaced Japanese professor at a New England university. A fishing expedition and an old Jewish recipe make for a surprise ending in Carp for the Gefilte Fish, a tale of a childless couple from Belarus and their American employers. In the tradition of other physician-writers, such as Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, Shrayer-Petrov's prose is marked by analytical exactitude and passionate humanism. Love and memory, dual identity, and the experience of exile are the chief components.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Shrayer-Petrov, \u003c\/b\u003ea well-known contemporary Russian-American writer and medical scientist, was born in Leningrad in 1936 and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He has published twenty-five books in his native Russian, most recently the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Beloved.\u003c\/i\u003e Shrayer-Petrov's books of fiction in English include \u003ci\u003eJonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDinner with Stalin and Other Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eM\u003cb\u003eaxim D. Shrayer\u003c\/b\u003e, the author's son and translator, is a professor at Boston College and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. His books include \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaving Russia: A Jewish Story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.68 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757823656224,"sku":"9780815608202","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/545bf2ffff6d12062eef9e4c21bc0125.webp?v=1780112597","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/autumn-in-yalta-a-novel-and-three-stories-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}