<p>A new collection of short stories and novellas by the Russian writer follows the wanderings of Eastern Europeans after the fall of the Berlin Wall.</p>

Mind the Doors: Long Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Zinik, Zinovy

Contemporary

Context Books

Coming from a thoroughly secular Soviet background, the Russian-British novelist Zinovy Zinik became aware for the first time of his “Jewishness” when he emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. In this stylistically innovative autobiographical taleZinik describes how an unheimliche experience in Berlin—of seeing for real the house he dreamed about many years before in London–led him to investigate the chequered and enigmatic past of his Russian-born grandfather, who, while ostensibly practicing as a doctor in Lithuania, was building the Soviet empire from which Zinik tried to escape 50 years later. In the manner of the classic detective story, Zinik’s meditation on “assumed identity” and “plagiarized past” culminates in the notion of recognition as a redeeming factor, suggesting that it is not only central to the twentieth-century Jewish experience or even the wider world of émigrés, exiles and migrants of all kinds, but to the human condition itself.

History Thieves (Manifestos for the 21st Century)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Seagull Books

Sounds Familiar: Or the Beast of Artek

Divus

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