Free World: A Novel
By David Bezmozgis.
Description
2011 Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist - FictionShortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller PrizeIt is August 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin and nuclear missiles stand primed in the Siberian silos. The Iron Curtain divides East from West as three generations of the Krasnansky family leave the Soviet Union to get their first taste of freedom. Choosing Canada rather than Israel as their destination, the Krasnanskys find themselves on an enforced holiday in Italy with thousands of other Russian Jewish immigrants all facing an uncertain future. Together the irres...
ISBN(s)
1443404004, 9781443404006
