Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration

by Maxim D. Shrayer

Book Overview

In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815608934
• ISBN13: 9780815608936
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"