TY - BOOK AU - Bezmozgis,David TI - The free world SN - 0374281408 (alk. paper) AV - PR9199.4.B495 F74 2011 U1 - 813/.6 BEZ 22nd PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Jews, Russian KW - Italy KW - Fiction KW - Immigrants KW - Jewish families N2 - 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 ER -