The Patriots

Name: The Patriots
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sana Krasikov
ISBN: 9781501938368

Author: Sana Krasikov

Narrator: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall

Unabridged: 22 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/24/2017

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Women

Synopsis

A debut novel by acclaimed story writer Sana Krasikov that examines the effects of the Cold War on three generations of one Jewish American family, from the 1930s to the present. Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, to a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage. The novel alternates between her story; the story of her son Julian, from his time in the orphanage to his emigration to the States with his family as a Refusenik and his eventual return to Moscow as an oil executive to investigate his mother's past; and the story of Julian's son Lenny, an American entrepreneur who is excited about the financial opportunities to be found in the new Russian marketplace.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Always on June 23, 2017

Another historical fiction that follows a family over generations and tries to incorporate their lives with the political shifts of the period. Florence leaves Brooklyn after the Great Depression to live in Russia and we follow her journey as well as her son's modern day journey back to Russia. Ther......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on February 07, 2017

I am currently on a small Russian kick in my reading and enjoying it very much. This is the story of a young, idealistic Jewish woman from Brooklyn named Florence Fein who goes to Russia in the early 1930s to pursue love and the hope for a better life. Reality soon hits her smack in the face in the......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on July 04, 2017

3.5/5 stars. This was the really beautiful and troublesome story of Florence, a Brooklyn girl who moves to Moscow in the 1930s because of a man and then ends up trapped in Russia. Meanwhile, her son is trying to find out information about his mother's story in today's world, in 2008, which means tha......more

Goodreads review by Victor on July 06, 2017

The Patriots by Sana Krasikov follows Florence Fein, a young Jewish American, on her journey to communist Russia in 1930s. Without going into details and giving away too many spoilers, I would mention that Florence is going on a treacherous road of disillusionment. She'd be trapped and gradually bro......more