[Daviscenter-list] Shrayer-Petrov & Shrayer Reading, Tues. 3/20 at the Coop

David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer Reading, Discussing and Signing Tuesday March 20^th at 7 pm at the Harvard Coop Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories Born in Leningrad in 1936 and immigrated to the United States in 1987, medical scientist, poet and critically acclaimed fiction author David Shrayer-Petrov writes powerful stories that blend Russian, Jew- ish, and American traditions. Encompassing an autobiographical novel and three short stories, his latest book, /Autumn in Yalta/, explores the forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious, social, and sexual lenses. In these haunting stories we find echoes of the Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jew- ish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Love and memory, medicine and healing, dual identity and the experience of exile are the chief components of the book. Fluidly translated by the author's son, Maxim D. Shrayer, this collection includes an afterword detailing the unique father-son, author-translator relationship. Tuesday March 20^th at 7 pm This event is proudly brought to you by The Harvard Coop Author Series and will be located on Level Three. 1400 Massachusetts Avenue Harvard Square, Cambridge 617.499.2000 . www.thecoop.com AUTHOR'S NOTE DR. DAVID SHRAYER-PETROV, a well-known contemporary Russian-American writer and medi- cal scientist, has published twenty books includ- ing the award-winning Jonah and Sarah and the Russian Booker Prize nominee Herbert and Nelly. MAXIM D. SHRAYER is professor of Russian and English at Boston College. His books include The World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew, and An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Litera- ture, 1801-2000.