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A Replacement Life

A Replacement Life

by Boris Fishman
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/08/2015

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Young Russian immigrant Slava Gelman wants to be a great American writer, but is only a researcher at a New Yorker-style magazine. When his beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, dies, his grandfather corners him with a request: could he forge a few Holocaust restitution claims? Slava resists at first, but eventually his semi-fictional accounts turn out to be the best writing he has ever done. Although he lives in fear of discovery and continues to stumble from one tragicomic incident to another, by the time Slava is finally confronted by a German government employee he is ready to play a role that is - almost - heroic.
ISBN:
9780957548893
9780957548893
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-08-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at the age of nine. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Travel & Leisure, and New York Magazine.

His first novel, A Replacement Life, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2014), winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal; a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick; and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His second novel, Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo, was also a New York Times Notable Book of theYear (2016), and received rave reviews.

Boris teaches in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program, and lives in New York City.

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