ISBN  9788418668647
Autor  Alex Halberstadt
Editorial  IMPEDIMENTA
Categoria  Literatura Universal
Condicion  Nuevo
Alex Halberstadt s quest takes him across the troubled enigmatic land of his birth where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania his Jewish mother s home to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. He returns to his birthplace Moscow where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers wives his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history..