David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D.
Shrayer
Reading, Discussing
and Signing
Tuesday March 20th 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 20th at
7 pm
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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.