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Dreaming in Russian - Anya Gillinson

Dreaming in Russian

A memoir

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2024
Sky Pony Press (Verlag)
978-1-5107-8212-9 (ISBN)
CHF 39,95 inkl. MwSt
An insightful memoir delving deeply into the modern Russian immigrant experience.

A violent crime shattered Moscow native Anya Gillinson's world when she was thirteen years old, urging her family to leave Russia for the American dream. As a teenager raised in a deeply patriarchal Russian society, Anya found herself grappling with a fiercely independent America. Her candid and heartfelt memoir delves into the clash between these two cultures through the stories of her family. It explores how her upbringing in Russia, and the subsequent immigrant experience,shaped her sense of femininity- a concept with vastly different definitions on either side of the Atlantic.Dreaming in Russian pitsthe two competing identities of her immigrant selfagainst one another. After over thirty years of living in America, in the grip of its indefatigable modernism, Gillinson has come to understandthat her bones, brains,and womanhood remain deeply rooted in the soil of Russian patriarchy.

Anya's journey forces questions, yet in the end it leaves her without answers,but at least with a personal resolution- that three decades of living in America have brought her back to her Russian past, which forever predetermined her present and outlined her future.

Anya Gillinson was born in Moscow, Russia, into the family of a renowned physician and a concert pianist. When she was thirteen years old, her father was killed during a botched robbery on his first and last visit to New York. Two years after his death, Anya moved to New York with her mother and younger sister and went on to graduate from high school, college, and eventually law school. She considers it a privilege to practice law and to be able to be useful to people, but literature has always been her true calling. In 2015, she published a volume of poetry in Russian, Suppress in Me the Strive To Love. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 209 mm
Gewicht 418 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5107-8212-5 / 1510782125
ISBN-13 978-1-5107-8212-9 / 9781510782129
Zustand Neuware
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