TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shrayer,Maxim
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Waiting for America: a story of emigration 
SN  - 9780815651802
AV  - PG3487.R34 W35 2012
U1  - 818/.603 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Part 1. Flight -- 1. Wienerwald -- 2. The Manchurian Trunk -- 3. Rome, Open City -- Part 2. Ladispoli -- 5. Rafaella's Rusty Mustang -- Interlude : The Roubenis of Esfahan -- 6. The Rabbi and the Pastor -- Part 3. Baggage -- 7. Napoleon at San Marino -- Interlude : Literature is Love -- 8. Uncle Pinya, Visiting -- Interlude : La Famiglia Soloveitchik -- 9. Refuge in Paradise
N2  - In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815651802/
ER  -