Lara Vapnyar
Born
Moscow, Russian Federation
Divide Me By Zero
6 editions
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2019
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Still Here
4 editions
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2016
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There Are Jews in My House
16 editions
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2003
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Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
5 editions
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2008
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Memoirs of a Muse
15 editions
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2006
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The Scent of Pine
9 editions
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2014
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Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
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2 editions
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2011
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Strongmen: Trump / Modi / Erdogan / Duterte / Putin
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8 editions
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2018
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The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction
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3 editions
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2014
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There Are Jews in My House Paperback - December 7, 2004
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“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing as a picture of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, they sell Russian food on Brighton Beach, and Russian books and videos, and Russian clothes, and there are Russian restaurants and Russian nightclubs, and everybody speaks Russian, but the Russianness of the place is so concentrated that it feels ridiculously exaggerated. Everything Russian on Brighton Beach is too Russian, far more Russian than in real Russia. This is what happens all over Brooklyn. From the Scandinavians of Bay Ridge to the Chinese of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's immigrants go to ridiculous extremes to re-create their homelands only to end up with a vulgar pastiche.”
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“The secret was that I could conduct the different parts of my life in the different parts of the house and ignore the fact that they didn’t work as a whole.”
― Divide Me By Zero
― Divide Me By Zero
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