small things left behind

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Russia, Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book small things left behind by Ella Zeltserman, The University of Alberta Press
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Author: Ella Zeltserman ISBN: 9781772120127
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: The University of Alberta Press Language: English
Author: Ella Zeltserman
ISBN: 9781772120127
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Publication: September 1, 2014
Imprint: The University of Alberta Press
Language: English

"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" -from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman's poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in 1979-of the young family she brought to Edmonton and the older one she left behind-does "explain freedom to the ones born bent," but it also explains oppression to the ones born free. Deftly modulating language, imagery, and events of past and present, comfort and tyranny, atrocity and family, home and war, Leningrad and Edmonton, she touches readers emotionally, drawing them into the journey. This authentic account of Russian-Jewish immigration to Canada during the Cold War will speak to all who have left their country or who moved far away from home.

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"Freedom is something my father has never known. How do I explain freedom to the ones born bent?" -from "Not Scared" Ella Zeltserman's poetry cuts both ways. The story of her flight from the USSR in 1979-of the young family she brought to Edmonton and the older one she left behind-does "explain freedom to the ones born bent," but it also explains oppression to the ones born free. Deftly modulating language, imagery, and events of past and present, comfort and tyranny, atrocity and family, home and war, Leningrad and Edmonton, she touches readers emotionally, drawing them into the journey. This authentic account of Russian-Jewish immigration to Canada during the Cold War will speak to all who have left their country or who moved far away from home.

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