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Immigrant city : stories / David Bezmozgis.

By: Publication details: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2019.Edition: 1st edDescription: 211 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781443457798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
Summary: David Bezmozgis brings us a new collection, his first in more than a decade. In these deeply-felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts. In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A grandfather's Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in "Little Rooster." In "Roman's Song," Roman's desire to help a new immigrant brings him into contact with a sordid underworld.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC BEZM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001155374

David Bezmozgis brings us a new collection, his first in more than a decade. In these deeply-felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts. In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version of his immigrant childhood. A grandfather's Yiddish letters expose a love affair and a wartime secret in "Little Rooster." In "Roman's Song," Roman's desire to help a new immigrant brings him into contact with a sordid underworld.

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