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 Petropolis - Anya Ulinich
 Petropolis - Anya Ulinich ... Penguin BooksNewest Review: ... with this situation, alone in a foreign country whose language she doesn't know? Is there any hope for a decent future? We ... more ... accompany Sasha on her pursuit of happiness until she's 21.
There's only a limited number of plots in literature, that means we've heard and read the same stories from the beginning of time and will never encounter anything new. Why do we go on reading then? It's the packaging that differs and that keeps us hooked. In Petropolis we have a coming of age plot, I can't prove it but I've got the feeling that most coming of age stories have a male protagonist, by creating not only a girl but a biracial, Jewish one in a n...more |
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Petropolis - Anya Ulinich: Black Bride (1207 words)
by - written on 11/11/08 (Very useful, 260 readings)
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"For a Jew, you sure look like a Negro". This from a well-meaning acquaintance, what Sasha Goldberg usually experiences from her classmates is not so 'nice' but brutal bullying. The notion of PC hasn't yet reached her town, Asbestos2, in central Siberia. We get to know Sasha when she's 14 years old, she lives together with her mother, her father defected to America some years before. Mrs Goldberg is a librarian and thus a member of the intelligentsia, she tries to find an adequate activity for her daughter, but ballet, figure-skating or playing the violin are doomed to failure from the beginning; Sasha is chubby, clumsy and free of any talent. ... Read the complete review
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