It's by Anya Ulinich "Petropolis". A story told by Anya Ulinch, who herself immigrated to USA from Moscow with her parents when she was 17, lived in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute. So she seems to know all ins and outs of what a typical teenager would know going to a mid-town high school or intricacies of Russian immigrant community, that we experienced first hand over the last 20 years/5(36). Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. Petropolis is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction/5(10). · Sasha Goldberg, the smart protagonist of Anya Ulinich's debut novel, Petropolis, is a biracial teen growing up in a small rundown town in Siberia. The town which was originally called Stalinsk and built as an administrative center for the Gulag has long since sunk into dire poverty and is now known merely called Asbestos 2 after the mineral that was discovered there.
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich available in Hardcover on www.doorway.ru, also read synopsis and reviews. Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town. by Anya Ulinich 1. The themes of maternal longing, jealousy, and hope turn up in a vast range of literature, from the work of Larry McMurtry and Jane Austen to that of Boris Pasternak, to mention just a few examples. Resumen de PETROPOLIS. In her stunning debut novel, Anya Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russian mail-order bride trying to find her place in America. After losing her father, her boyfriend, and her baby, Sasha Goldberg decides that getting herself to the United States is the surest path to deliverance.
"Anya Ulinich's Petropolis is a coming-of-age story, a novel about outsiderness, about being a Jew and an immigrant, a Lost Girl trying to find the father who left when she was a child. That Ulinich steers clear of sentimentality may seem like a minor miracle. Petropolis by by Anya Ulinich. paperback: pages; Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN ; ISBN Anya Ulinich (born ) is a contemporary Russian American writer and visual artist. She is the author of Petropolis (Viking, ), and Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel, a graphic novel (Penguin,). Petropolis, a Sami Rohr Prize Finalist, presents the American dream as no longer a matter of material success, or even educational opportunities.
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