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An Echo in My Blood: The Search for My Family's Hidden Past
de Weisman, Alan
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0151002916
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002917
- Librería
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 426 p. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. An accomplished investigative journalist, Weisman here turns his talents to looking into his family's past, trying to corroborate the stories he heard growing up. Learning that many family legends were strictly fictional, Weisman then tracks down the truth about the family's flight from the Ukraine and comes to a truer understanding of his father's personality, as well as his own.
Sinopsis
Throughout his childhood in Minneapolis, Alan Weisman was told that his grandfather was killed by Communists in the Ukraine at the turn of the century. When, as an adult, he meets a long-estranged uncle who tells a very different version of the story, Alan embarks on a search for the truth that takes him to the chemical ruin of Chernobyl and back in time to the Bolshevik Revolution. He discovers the paradoxical rationale for his father's vehement political and social conservatism as well as a more universal truth: that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective family myths. One of these myths hides the true fate of his grandfather-a nightmare too terrible to express. At once an examination of his rootless generation and a look at the hopes and dreams of his forefathers, An Echo in My Blood takes you from the secret heart of an America you might not recognize to the pogroms of turn-of-the-century Kiev.
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- Librería
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 60873
- Título
- An Echo in My Blood: The Search for My Family's Hidden Past
- Autor
- Weisman, Alan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0151002916
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002917
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- Anti-Semitism, Borodulin, Kid Cann, Chernobyl Nuclear, Anton Denikin, Don Cossacks, Orville Freeman, Samuel Friedman, Hubert Humphrey, Hvass, Mala Viska, Meshbesher, Palmer Station, Petylura, Pogroms, Tcherikower, Sandy Tolan, Volodya Tikhii, Vaisman
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