“This incredibly powerful book grabs you by the gut. You’ll experience the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life.”

Alan Alda

         

“Exquisitely wrought, tender memoir of growing up in the Soviet Union.”

The New York Times Book Review

“An enthralling read.”

J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

“The Russian equivalent of Angela’s Ashes.”

Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate