Bezmozgis, David, 1973-

The free world / Dust cover title: Free world : a novel David Bezmozgis. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. - 356 p. ; 24 cm.

Summer, 1978. Among the thousands of Soviet Jews who have landed in Italy to secure visas for new lives in the West are the members of the Krasnansky family-- three generations of Russian Jews. Together they will spend six months in Rome-- their way station and purgatory.

0374281408 (alk. paper) 9780374281403 (alk. paper)

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Jews, Russian--Italy--Fiction.
Immigrants--Italy--Fiction.
Jewish families--Fiction.

PR9199.4.B495 / F74 2011

813/.6 BEZ