{"product_id":"love-like-water-love-like-fire-paperback","title":"Love Like Water, Love Like Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMikhail Iossel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eComedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We can't stop turning the pages of this book.\" --\u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood, dissidence and subsequent immigration, are filled with wit and humor even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMikhail Iossel\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), where he worked as an electromagnetic engineer and belonged to an organization of samizdat writers before immigrating to the United States in 1986. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNotes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e and two collections of fiction: \u003ci\u003eLove Like Water, Love Like Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEvery Hunter Wants to Know\u003c\/i\u003e. A frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, his stories and essays have also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcotone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTikkun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Iossel, a Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner Fellow, has taught in universities throughout the United States and is an associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162661720199,"sku":"9781942658566","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6d44cc29d3fac7d363dd4922bc122bc8.webp?v=1733291224","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/love-like-water-love-like-fire-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}