cover image Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories

Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories

David Shraer-Petrov. Syracuse University Press, $24.95 (235pp) ISBN 978-0-8156-0820-2

This deeply moving collection by Russian-American writer and medical scientist Shrayer-Petrov includes three short stories and the autobiographical novel Strange Danya Rayev, detailing a young Jewish boy's memories of evacuation during WWII. Varied in scope, ranging from a doctor's doomed love and exile to a Siberian prison camp, to a Japanese professor's love for an American woman, these haunting stories evidence a past teeming with tradition and struggle, told in beautiful, inventive prose.