Leaving Russia

Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy''s confessional trilogy and Nabokov''s autobiog­raphy, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet''s rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer''s remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on...