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2) Silent movie
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie, in a picture book that evokes an actual silent movie.
3) Away
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant new novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable, Bloom pens the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, who after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
With World War I raging in Europe, eleven-year-old Anna is thrilled to learn that her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family on the lower East Side of New York, and although Tania is shy and withdrawn when she arrives, her love of cats helps her adjust to her new family.
6) Still here
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul." In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four Russian immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York ... [Decades later,] Jakob has achieved success in the diamond business, invested in real estate in New York, and shown his son, Max, that America is truly the land of opportunity. Max is a rising star, a graduate of Harvard with friends among the wealthiest, most ambitious...
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