Natasha, and Other Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Bezmozgis
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1980-2004
- Setting: Toronto
- Principal Characters: Mark Berman, Roman Berman, Bella Berman, Jana, Zina, Natasha, Sergei Federenko, Rufus, Rabbi Gurvich, Herschel
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, Canada or Canadians, Identity, Boys, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Toronto, Canada
While one cannot judge a book by its cover, the themes of David Bezmozgis's first book, Natasha, and Other Stories, are nicely reflected by the Russian nesting dolls—or matryoshka—that replace the letter As in the title on the otherwise spartan cover of the book's first Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition. The use of the nesting dolls ostensibly conveys the Latvian-Russian cultural heritage at play in Bezmozgis's collection of stories. At the same time, however, the nesting dolls—those oval, hollow dolls made so that each doll in a succession can fit inside the next...
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