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PANIC IN A SUITCASE
When the Nasmertov family moved from Soviet Odessa to New York City, they left behind discrimination, genteel poverty, a lack of opportunity, and uncle Pasha, a burgeoning poet. A neurotic, an isolationist, and (to the family's great dismay) a recently converted Christian, Pasha stages a quiet rebellion by stalling on his promise to join the family in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: he can't, or won't, shake the psychic handcuffs that keep him from a decision.
For better or worse, Pasha gets to remain what he is - a Russian poet. Crouched in the kitchen, crashed in front of the incomprehensible television, riveted, confounded: the Nasmertovs are at once Soviet Jews and Americans, stuck somewhere between worlds, shambling along the border, packed like dizzy sardines. But if the Nasmertov parents can only afford to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family's youngest, Frida, on her rickety way towards adulthood, can only look back. Her voice and deeply embedded perspective turn the novel into a counter-history - a novel of what might've been, a portrait of nearly twenty years of halted, almost progress.
Yelena (27) was born in Odessa, raised in Brighton, and educated at Hunter and then the Columbia MFA program. PANIC IN A SUITCASE is a piece of art that so deeply inhabits the experience of a particularly Russian journey while foregoing the comforting clichés and more-or-less benign minstrelsy that has characterized works by other members of this immigrant. Yelena breathes life into PANIC IN A SUITCASE with holistic richness and lyrical guile. The language is peerlessly inventive and a stylistic precedent is difficult to locate.
Her work has appeared in n+1, where portions of the novel were featured; The New Republic; and Tablet, among others.
DER SOMMER MIT PASHA
Deutsch von Eva Bonné
[HC Rowohlt Berlin 01/16]
For better or worse, Pasha gets to remain what he is - a Russian poet. Crouched in the kitchen, crashed in front of the incomprehensible television, riveted, confounded: the Nasmertovs are at once Soviet Jews and Americans, stuck somewhere between worlds, shambling along the border, packed like dizzy sardines. But if the Nasmertov parents can only afford to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family's youngest, Frida, on her rickety way towards adulthood, can only look back. Her voice and deeply embedded perspective turn the novel into a counter-history - a novel of what might've been, a portrait of nearly twenty years of halted, almost progress.
Yelena (27) was born in Odessa, raised in Brighton, and educated at Hunter and then the Columbia MFA program. PANIC IN A SUITCASE is a piece of art that so deeply inhabits the experience of a particularly Russian journey while foregoing the comforting clichés and more-or-less benign minstrelsy that has characterized works by other members of this immigrant. Yelena breathes life into PANIC IN A SUITCASE with holistic richness and lyrical guile. The language is peerlessly inventive and a stylistic precedent is difficult to locate.
Her work has appeared in n+1, where portions of the novel were featured; The New Republic; and Tablet, among others.
DER SOMMER MIT PASHA
Deutsch von Eva Bonné
[HC Rowohlt Berlin 01/16]
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Published 2014-08-01 by Riverhead |