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- Book Title
- Wife Who Wasn't : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Wife Who Wasn't
- Title
- The Wife Who Wasn't
- EAN
- 9781734537918
- ISBN
- 9781734537918
- Publisher
- New Europe Books
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- 01/07/2021
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 13.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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"This comedy of errors is a page-turner, where a mail-order bride service, enough love triangles to boggle the mind, a stolen Egon Schiele painting, and a devastating fire lead the worlds of Santa Barbara and Chiinau to collide." --Los Angeles Review of Books An exhilaratingly comical, crosscultural debut novel, The Wife Who Wasn't brings together an eccentric community from the hills of Santa Barbara, California, and a family of Russians from Chiinau, the capital of Moldova. It starts in the late 1990s, after the fall of communism, and has at its center the mail-order marriage between a California man (Sammy) and a Russian woman (Tania) who comes to America, which engenders a series of hilarious cultural misunderstandings. The novel's four parts take place alternately in California and Moldova, and comprise short chapters whose point of view moves seamlessly between that of the omniscient narrator and that of various characters. Delivered in arresting prose, both realities--late 90s, bohemian/hipster California and postcommunist Moldova--thus come together from opposite points of view. Above all, this novel is a comedy of manners that depicts the cultural (and personality) clash between Tania and Sammy, Anna (Sammy's teenage daughter) and Irina, and Bill (Sammy's neighbor) and Serioja (Tania's brother). It is also a comedy of errors in the tradition of playful, multiple love triangles. The novel reaches a shocking climax involving a stolen Egon Schiele painting and alluding to the real history of East Mountain Drive, whose bohemian community was destroyed in the 2008 "Tea Fire." A literary tour de force and a rollicking satire of both suburban America and urban Eastern Europe, is a must for fans of Gary Schteyngart ( The Russian Debutante's Handbook ), Keith Gessen ( A Terrible Country ), and Lara Vapnyar ( Divide Me By Zero ).
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Publisher
New Europe Books
ISBN-10
1734537914
ISBN-13
9781734537918
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038486410
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wife Who Wasn't : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3609.F58
Reviews
"This comedy of errors is a page-turner, where a mail-order bride service, enough love triangles to boggle the mind, a stolen Egon Schiele painting, and a devastating fire lead the worlds of Santa Barbara and Chisinau to collide." -- Los Angeles Review of Books
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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