LEADER 03687cam a2200577 i 4500001 253610 005 20240621200522.0 008 140107s2014 nyu 000 1 eng 010 2013048444 019 878945239880666966881375147882558317 020 0062287877 |q(hardback) 020 9780062287878 |q(hardback) 020 0062287885 |q(paperback) 020 9780062287885 |q(paperback) 020 |z9780062287892 |q(ebook) 035 (OCoLC)ocn859586294 035 253610 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dIG# |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCO |dWIQ |dYDXCP |dCOO |dVP@ |dOCLCO |dIXA |dPUL |dCDX |dAU@ |dSTF |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dAW3 |dOCLCO |dLHM 050 00 PS3606.I824 |bR47 2014 100 1 Fishman, Boris, |d1979- |eauthor. 245 12 A replacement life : |ba novel / |cBoris Fishman. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY : |bHarper, |c[2014] 300 321 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has -- as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR ; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him -- Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American -- but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American ; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice"-- |cProvided by publisher. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews, Russian |zUnited States |vFiction. 650 0 Authorship |vFiction. 650 0 Identity (Psychology) |vFiction. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vFiction. 651 0 United States |xEmigration and immigration. 650 7 Authorship. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00822442 650 7 Emigration and immigration. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00908690 650 7 Identity (Psychology) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00966892 650 7 Jews, Russian. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983514 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 Psychological fiction. |2lcgft 655 7 Domestic fiction. |2lcgft 655 7 Humorous fiction. |2lcgft 655 7 Domestic fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 Fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 Humorous fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01726649 655 7 Psychological fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01726481 655 7 Humorous stories. |2fast |0(AW3)366022 852 0 |bstacks |hPS3606.I824 |iR47 2014