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Leonid Pereplyotchik
SIBERIAN SAGA
Short Stories
Former professor of the Siberian University Leonid Pereplyotchik wrote a series of short stories about life people in the Soviet Russia. He described the destiny of many people, their attempts to emigrate. When the former Soviet people came to the U.S., they encountered too many social and psychological problems. They served as a kind of bridge between the two different planets: East and West, Russia and America.
Book Description:
ADAGIO
All David's life goes on, the musical background continues—the adagio from the ballet Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky and Waltz in C-sharp Minor by F. Chopin. David perceived this music differently depending on his life circumstances: first love, parting, adaptation to a new life in the U.S., loneliness. In the end of his life, he again met Emma, whom he was in love with in his youth. At that time, the music sounds tragically as a herald of oncoming death.
PORTLAND STORY
The owner of the metal concern in Portland, Chaim Schwartz, found his sister Anna who lived in the Russian town Saratov. He asked his son Jacob to help Anna and her relatives come to the U.S. and settle in Portland. Several families came to Portland from Saratov.
Programmer Leo volunteered for the Jewish Family Services to help people from various Russian towns to start a new life in the U.S. He met the family of Chaim Schwartz's relatives from Saratov. The three generations of this family made their own way in life, with their own moral and social values in the U.S.
The novel tells about the destinies of various families from Russia, their adaptation problems, and conflicts between generations inside families. The novel deals with the social and psychological problems of many people, their relationships, loneliness, etc.
SIBERIAN SAGA
Mark worked for the university in the Siberian region of Russia and faced anti-Semitism from students and colleges. After immigration to the U.S., he worked in the American province as a computer analyst.
Mark's college friend Thelma asked him for advice about adopted Russian children, who had been tortured in the orphanage and now can't adapt to an American way of life.
Michael went to Russia to meet his future bride. However, he made a bad impression on her relatives, because his behavior did not correspond to Russian traditions. Returning home, Michael asked Mark for advice about whether to marry the Russian girl.
Mark went to New York and stayed at his friend's home. The next day he read from the Russian Website about a big attack planned by terrorists to destroy New York. Mark visited the Russian community Brighton Beach. This peculiar place is described by many Russian novelists.
THE BAPTIST
A group of the technical college students were sent for practice to canal construction in South Ukraine. All of a sudden, they realized that one of them, Alex was a Baptist. Being atheists, they started to mock Alex. Another student, Joseph, defended Alex.
After returning from practice, students started to work on their diploma projects. Joseph finished his project early and went to his parents. Meanwhile the students offended Alex; they demanded to expel Alex from the college because his religion violated the Communist ideology rules.
When Joseph entered the room where the students worked, he saw that students sang obscene couplets about Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary. They loudly laughed after each couplet. Alex stood by his desk. His face was crimson; his eyes became red for anger. Suddenly, Alex rushed to a window, and jumped on the window sill, shouting damnation to the students. He jumped out of the window.
SUN ROAD
David fell in love with Chechen woman Anna. She was a journalist and covered the political events in their town. Once she was severely beaten by neo-Nazis during her coverage of the nationalist demonstration.
Anna's brother called and demanded that she leave her Jewish boyfriend. Anna refused. David insisted they would both escape to a far corner of Russia, so Chechens could not find them. Anna, knowing that Chechens, will get them anywhere, decided to obey her brother's order and disappeared for good.
KYRIE ELEISON
The terrorist attack 9/11 deeply impressed Jacob. He could not get rid of the fear. It seemed to him terrorists were everywhere: in crowded places, in a concert hall. Half a year later he visited an International Bach festival in Eugene. During the performance of Mass in B-minor by J. S. Bach, Jacob meditate on the values of human life and democratic society, which became defenseless against the terrorism. Reflecting on the destruction of the Roman Empire, he draws an analogy between Rome and contemporary American society. The music of the Mass in B-Minor deeply intertwined with his thinking of the war on terror and the future of mankind.
SIBERIAN SAGA
by Leonid Pereplyotchik
Publication Date: December 2008
$18.99; Paperback; 282 pages;
ISBN: 1-4392-1609-6
Language: English
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