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A compelling storyline of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. Within the twilight of the Freezing Battle, nine-year-old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet boundary with only ten suitcases, $600, and the hazy guarantee of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adult, places out to retrace his family's long trek, locate the strangers who fought for his freedom, and along the way, gain a future by understanding his past. Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant storyline of a son in the confusing and frequently chilling final 10 years of the Soviet Union. It's also the storyplot of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern European countries to locate the strangers who made his get away from possible.... and thank them. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional integrity in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's seek out personal identity placed up against the relentless currents of background is greater than a memoir: it's a portrait of the lost era. That is a thrilling story of get away from and success, a deeply personal look at the life of the Jewish child found in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative analysis into the electricity of hatred and the seek out owed. Lev Golinkin achieves an incredible feat - and it marks the debut of the fiercely smart, defiant, and remarkable new voice.
