{"product_id":"9781942658566","title":"Love Like Water, Love Like Fire","description":"Author: Mikhail Iossel\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781942658566\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 08 Aug 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonised and idealised. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood, dissidence and subsequent immigration, are filled with wit and humour even as they describe the daily absurdities of a fickle and often perilous reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove Like Water, Love Like Fire \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis an extraordinary book: funny and profound, moving and provocative. Rarely has life in the former USSR (or anywhere, for that matter) been portrayed with such a rich admixture of soaring observation and finely rendered detail. This is a gorgeously constructed collection by one of our wittiest and most insightful writers.\u0026amp;#x27; - Molly Antopol, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe UnAmericans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Mikhail Iossel is a genius, a comic visionary in the tradition of Gogol, Keret, Barthelme, and Saunders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Love Like Water, Love Like Fire \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a book of surprises and delights.\u0026amp;#x27; - Brian Morton, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Starting Out in the Evening and Florence Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867113803934,"sku":"ADS-9781942658566","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781942658566.jpg?v=1779430218","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781942658566","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}