Petropolis

ISBN-13: 9780143113010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 324 str.

Anya Ulinich

Opis

In her stunning debut novel, Anya Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russian mail-order bride trying to find her place in America. After losing her father, her boyfriend, and her baby, Sasha Goldberg decides that getting herself to the United States is the surest path to deliverance. But she finds that life in Phoenix with her Red Lobster-loving fiance isn't much better than life in Siberia, and so she treks across America on a misadventure-filled search for her long- lost father. Petropolis is a deeply moving story about the unexpected connections that create a family and the faraway places that we end up calling home.

Recenzje

"Audacious, clever, and lively . . . a nervy social satire in the spirit of Tom Wolfe, Aleksandar Hemon, Gish Jen, Gary Shteyngart, and Lara Vapnyar."
-Chicago Tribune

"Ulinich has a knack for the tragicomic. . . . Petropolis is engaging, funny, and genuinely moving in all the right places."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A moving account of a perpetual outsider's desire to belong, both to her family and to the wide, weird world she encounters with a sometimes weary heart and plenty of chutzpah."
-USA Today

"A beautiful far-ranging voice equally at home on both sides of the Atlantic . . . Anya Ulinich's satiric romp gives new meaning to the word 'bittersweet.'"
-Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook

O autorze

Anya Ulinich, geboren 1973 in Moskau, war siebzehn als ihre Familie in die USA emigrierte und wollte ursprünglich Malerin werden. Als Neueinwandererin zunächst auf der untersten Stufe der sozialen Hierarchie lebend begann Anya Ulinich sich jedoch zunehmend mit Sprache, Kultur und Klassenstrukturen zu befassen. Gleichzeitig schrieb sie sich am Art Institute of Chicago ein und machte schließlich einen Abschluss in der Sparte "Malerei" an der University of California, doch der Wunsch, die Flut ihrer Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen in Prosa zu fassen, wurde immer drängender.