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"Uncle Vanya of Marblehead, MA" by Alexander Lonshteyn Alexander Lonshteyn was born in Moscow, Russia.  He immigrated in the United States in 1988.  He holds BS in Applied Math, MS in Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Economics. Alexander works as a Software Engineer and has two major hobbies: sea kayaking and theater. “Uncle Vanya of Marblehead, MA” examines life, personal and professional achievements through the eyes of Russian immigrants who tried to restart their lives in America and adjust to a new cultural environment. “Josef and Son, Carpenters and General Contractors” is an exploration of Jesus Christ’s life during the 20 so-called “unknown” years.  How did a child prodigy grow up to be the most famous rabbi who ever lived?  The play depicts how Joshua’s circumstances and personal qualities – his profession, his religion, his strength and size, and his innate leadership skills – guide his transformation. "In Search of the Guilty Party” is a psychological drama and mystery.  The protagonist Eugene, a successful businessman, is a suspect in a criminal investigation of alleged Russian mafia activities. Over time, as he loses trust in his family, friends, and society everybody becomes a suspect.  Eugene’s life of prosperity and self-confidence is destroyed in equal measure by the investigation itself and the suspicions it arouses... More about the book... * * *

"My Georges: Creators and Power" by Marina Khazanov. in Russian   Marina Khazanov, a former Muscovite, a professor at Boston University, teaches classes on modern Russian culture, press, cinema, and Russian language. The fifth book of this author is devoted to literary idols of the 20th century. M. Khazanova is interested in the eternal questions of creators and power, good and evil, the victors and the defeated. The author attempts to understand why her heroes acted the way they did in the epoch of totalitarism; why some wished to keep abreast with time, while at the same time remaining true to themselves; while others gave in and agreed to compromises, and yet others consciously isolated themselves from the system, acting against it. Stories of these authors are interwoven with M. Khazanov's stories about the idols themselves or their works, and how the lot intertwined with her life, and made it such as it is. More about the book...

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"Love on the running track" by Irina Chaykovskaya in Russian A book of lyric stories and novels by well known Boston writer Irina Chaykovskya. Love on the running track? Why is it so? Because love can catch us everywhere we go — in class, in church, or while jogging around the track. The characters from the book are based on the author’s impressions from three places — Russia, Italy, and the USA — countries where the author has lived. An American boy, a University professor, a Catholic priest, and an ordinary Italian woman… This book also contains two novels on Avdotya Panaeva, the mistress of Nekrasov — a Russian writer and poet — and the source of his inspiration. More about the book... * * * "Notes of a Marginal Person" by Mikhail Goncharok (Izrael). in Russian Collection of short stories by an Israeli writer M. Goncharok (in Russian).  "Mikhail Goncharok,…is a man I knew as a researcher of Jewish history, whom I knew personally, and yet, from whom I never heard that he wrote book, which became a discovery to me.  It turned out that in the same city with me lives the most interesting, masterful writer, who manages, in a short story just four-five pages long, to create such lively, corporeal characters that, if I knew how to draw, I would be able to sketch their portraits. An eccentric and magnanimous minister, settler Ivan and, of course, powerful veteran Vasil' Vasil'ich are all fruits of imagination of a man who is observant, attentive to the world in which he lives, gifted with a sense of humour and writing in a unique manner that's exclusively his, though it is possible to tell he's been influenced by those who are the pride of Russian literature. I read an abridged, electronic version of the book quickly and all at once, and am awaiting with impatience the publication of his first book, which I will exhibit on a visible spot in my library, in order to re-read it from time to time." Boris Kamyanov, member of PEN-club, Chairman of "Capital," the cooperation of the Israeli Russian-language writers. More about the book...