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(0)David Bezmozgis
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There,...
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thahn Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current headlines, with proceeds to support the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis22.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to Syria,...