A backpack, a bear, and eight crates of vodka a memoir

Recounts the author's experiences as a young boy fleeing persecution in the late eighties Soviet Union, and his later return to Austria and Eastern Europe as an American adult to track down those who helped his family escape and thank them.

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Main Author: Golinkin, Lev (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, 2014.
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Summary:Recounts the author's experiences as a young boy fleeing persecution in the late eighties Soviet Union, and his later return to Austria and Eastern Europe as an American adult to track down those who helped his family escape and thank them.
Physical Description:ix, 307 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780385537773
0385537778
Author Notes:Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka .  Mr. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the US as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990.  His op-eds and essays on the Ukraine crisis have appeared in The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Boston Globe , and Time.com , among others; he has been interviewed by WSJ Live and HuffPost Live.