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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Golinkin, Lev.     Subjects     Golinkin, Lev.     Jews, Russian -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- Biography.     Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Golinkin, Lev.       by title:      A backpack, a bear, ...         MARC Display

A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka [electronic resource] : a memoir / Lev Golinkin. by Golinkin, Lev. New York : Doubleday, 2014. Subjects Golinkin, Lev.   Jews, Russian -- Ukraine -- Kharkiv -- Biography.   Jewish refugees -- United States -- Biography. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=909DB103-9B75-4451-BD44-17FD7945DC2F This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/backpack-a-bear?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{909DB103-9B75-4451-BD44-17FD7945DC2F}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385537780 (electronic bk.) 0385537786 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adult, sets out to retrace his family's long trek, locate the strangers who fought for his freedom, and in the process, gain a future by understanding his past. Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible ... and say thank you. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional honesty in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's search for personal identity set against the relentless currents of history is more than a memoir'it's a portrait of a lost era. This is a thrilling tale of escape and survival, a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Lev Golinkin achieves an amazing feat'and it marks the debut of a fiercely intelligent, defiant, and unforgettable new voice.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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