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"[A] hilarious and heartbreaking story of a Jewish family’s escape from oppression....whose drama, hope and heartache Mr. Golinkin captures brilliantly...A wonderful writer, witty and economical, he generally applies a light touch to emotionally heavy material. Adversity offers him rich comic material."--The New York Times"An awesome intercontinental whirlwind, funny and smart. Go Ukraine!"--Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Little Failure "Golinkin's memoir is a look into life during the Cold War, as well as a coming-of-age-story about finding yourself and where you belong. And reading the harrowing details of his family's exodus will have you counting your own blessings—and hugging the people you love."--Glamour.com "Mr. Golinkin excels at these moments, describing the emotional truth of immigration... His account is so raw that it manages to capture at a visceral level the feelings of many of the million Soviet Jews who left their homeland at the Cold War’s end."--The Wall Street Journal"[Lev Golinkin] convincingly relates the purgatory of statelessness, the confused anticipatory state of the immigrant."--The Chicago Tribune"Best memoir title of the year...Golinkin's A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka is fueled not by sly humor but by a potent cocktail of earnestness and anger."--The Oregonian"Outstanding, original, and deeply moving."--Chuck Hogan, bestselling author of The Town and co-author of The Strain"As the author turned nine during the Soviet Union’s final years, his Jewish family fled hostile Kharkov, in Ukraine, with virtually no possessions and made their way through central Europe to the U.S. After college, he retracted their steps, thanking the NGO workers and patrons who’d helped them – including the son of an unrepentant Nazi Austrian baron. Golinkin’s account of the whole saga is lucidly intelligent and humanistic – and deeply moving."--ELLE (The Elle's Lettres 2015 Readers' Prize)"A vibrant, stylish work of literary nonfiction that's equally joyous and tragic."--The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philly.com)"Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, there is a vibrant literary canon written by former Soviet Jews who have come of age in America. Gary Shteyngart may be the group’s founding father; Anya Ulinich, its graphic novelist; Yelena Akhtiorskaya, its newest ingenue. Mr. Golinkin, with this deeply personal and sometimes painful dissection of the split identity of an emigre, has grabbed the role of psychotherapist."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Despite the serious topic, Golinkin writes with a light touch; he has a natural sense of humor and an easy style...[A Backpack, a Bear, and] Eight Crates of Vodka opens with a depiction of breathtaking cruelty. But by the end, readers may feel breathless at the incredible kindness of strangers."--Minneapolis Star Tribune“There’s a gem on every page of A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka. Lev Golinkin has the skill and vision necessary to tell the story of a crumbling empire, and the soulfulness and flair to capture that story in the saga of one man. He’s an alert, and witty, and humane storyteller. I will eagerly read anything he writes.”--Avi Steinberg, author of Running the Books and The Lost Book of Mormon"Golinkin came to America as a Ukrainian child refugee with only what he and his family could carry. But he's found his family fortune in their exodus story--a soulful tale that is both incredibly beautiful and wickedly funny, a tale of being lost, being found and finding home." --Helene Stapinski, author of Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History "An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir of a boy from Soviet Ukraine that entertains as it conveys insight into the meaning of America in today's turbulent world." --Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former ambassador to the Soviet Union under Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and author of Reagan and Gorbachev and Autopsy on an Empire"In Lev Golinkin’s skillful memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, we share his family’s traumatic flight to freedom from Soviet Ukraine, and then a young man’s brave attempt to build a meaningful life in the United States."--Peter Eisner, author of The Pope’s Last Crusade"[Lev] Golinkin's personal tale of childhood in the Ukraine has the specificity of his own story at its heart, and becomes more than just a woeful yarn about repression in the Soviet Bloc. It can be heartbreaking, but in unexpected and nuanced ways...When he catches up with the present, the narrative fractures, skipping between his return voyage to the Ukraine to answer his own questions about leaving and accounts of his family's early experiences in their new country. All these strains are working at once in the story, as they are in his mind, as he digs up repressed memories and reassembles fragmented ones. Golinkin's memoir travels along at a confident clip, giving readers not just an immigrant story, but also a detailed look at how the mind wraps itself around a complicated life."--Biographile.com"Golinkin writes with dry humor about his experience but connects emotionally...A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka blends memoir and history into an intimate tale of personal growth."--BookPage“Golinkin convincingly portrays the miseries, and rare joys, of his bullied, furtive childhood, and the limits it put on him….[He] has created a deeply moving account of fear and hope.”--Publishers Weekly"An ex-Iron Curtain refugee-turned-American citizen tells the emotional story of how he and his parents fled the Ukraine two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union...Unflinching honesty. A mordantly affecting chronicle of a journey to discover that 'you can't have a future if you don't have a past.'"--Kirkus Reviews"Golinkin’s early memories are touchingly true to those of a youngster, and he reports on his family members’ fears, troubles, persistence, and patience with a keen eye and a memorable voice...Eye-opening for those who come to the U.S. and for those who help them do so."--Booklist
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About the Author
Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka. Mr. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the US as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His op-eds and essays on the Ukraine crisis have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by WSJ Live and HuffPost Live.From the Hardcover edition.
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Product details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (October 13, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345806336
ISBN-13: 978-0345806338
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
223 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#65,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I can't recommend Lev Golinkin's memoir highly enough. It's a beautifully told story, one that carries extra resonance these days with a new generation of refugees making their way across Europe.The book starts taking readers through Golinkin's family's brutal upbringing in Kharkov, Ukraine. Belittled, berated and objectified with hatred, Golinkin's family has its Jewishness almost literally beaten out of them. As Golinkin writes:"The reminders of being a zhid still came, at school and in the yard, but over time something else began to creep up on me, in addition to the fear. I considered the bullies lucky: they only had to see me once in a while; I had to live with myself every day. I envied them."By the time they left -- along with tens of thousands of other Soviet Jews during a brief window of Glasnost-produced loosening -- it wasn't religious freedom that Golinkin and family sought:"What my family and many families like mine desired was peace of mind, not a synagogue. We wanted freedom, the freedom to live our lives without trembling, and naturally we, like our innumerable predecessors, cast our gaze across the Atlantic."This skillfully produced and assembled work has four main parts: the family's life in Kharkov; their journey to America (could be a movie in itself -- indeed, its indelible images are seared into Golinkin's mind's eye for the next two decades); Lev's upbringing in America (I loved his passages about Boston College to whom he seems truly indebted and grateful); and a subsequent trip made back through Europe 17 years after his seminal initial passage. It's that last part that gets to the emotional core of the book: he goes back and tracks down all the people that played a part in making that trip a reality and thanks them. It's a beautiful thing.
Until I read this book I knew nothing about the persecution of Jews in the USSR. This interesting book opened my eyes.This book recounts the story of the Golinkin family's struggle to leave the Ukraine in the late 1980's. It wasn't as easy as making a flight reservation and leaving. The family had to navigate through a nightmare jungle of bureaucracy just to get permission to leave. Lev as a young child was relentlessly bullied and his sister was blocked from going to medical school. The parents had jobs they loved and were respected. They knew, however, that they needed to leave for the sake of their children. Quite a sacrifice and one that added to the author's guilt.For me, most of this book was a page turner. The last section where Lev Golinkin, the author, is focused on his inner turmoil was a little difficult to get through, but I understand why it was there. Things weren't all dandy psychologically for Lev as he became an adult. He had inner turmoil to overcome and it's good to know that he made it. I think he could have been a wonderful doctor had he chosen that direction.One very petty annoying thing about this book is that a quote on the bottom right front cover of this book states that it's "hilarious". There is nothing close to hilarious about this book. There are a couple of amusing moments, but that's it for levity. That's not the first time I have seen that word on a serious book. I guess publishers think a book has to be funny to sell.
I got this because it's the selection our library chose for a community reading program, but it is worth reading in any event. Lev Golinkin is honest in his analysis of his family's flight from the Soviet Union, even realizing that some of the memories are from the viewpoint of a nine year old. Those of us that were born and raised in the US may not understand how really tough it is to grow up in another country or what it takes to leave that country and find a new home with the hope that it will be better. It's not a long book, but it's packed with adventure and the kindness of strangers.
This is a fascinating and startling story of a young, Jewish boy trying to survive in atheist Communist Russia and his very difficult journey to the United States. When he is older, he decides to return to thank everyone who helped him in his journey to freedom to the United States.I found it interesting on how difficult and uncomfortable it is was to live in in a Communist country, especially for the Jews. The new immigrants continue to have problems and difficulties of trying to assimilate into a new country of the United States, with a different cultures,with different laws, with different ways of doing things. This book is an excellent eye-opener.I was totally engrossed in the story that was told of living in Russia, in the difficulties of leaving Russia and the problems of adapting to a new home.
Great read! It has heart and history. This is a memoir of a boy to a man who has lived and experienced pain and hardship and searching for who he really is as a person and connecting with his past and his identity. Vaguely I remember the plea for helping the Jewish immigrants within the synagogue and the community. As a recruiter I even interviewed a few of these people but of course never ever until now understood or heck even connected what was going on with these people. He has been blessed with a wonderful family who each had their own devil to come to terms with as a unit and individually. The writing style was easy and connected...much better than I am doing in this review. Good READ! Heartfelt!
I rarely review books. I discovered this book through some sort of review. First the title caught my eye and then I found the subject matter interesting. I will say this, I am so glad I found this book. I am not Jewish or an immigrant, but this book thoroughly opened my eyes to the blessings of being born and raised an American. In all this year 's books that I have read during 2014, this book ranks in the top three. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it engaging and enlightening. I can only say, "Who knew?" I was a spoiled young yuppy during the period that is this book begins and mostly transpires. A real eye-opener to what the rest of the world faces outside of American citizenship.
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