Stalin's Barber A Novel
by Levitt, Paul M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-12-16
Publisher(s): Taylor Trade Publishing
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Summary
Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts—including one from Razan himself.
Author Biography
Paul M. Levitt is professor of English at the University of Colorado and the author of several novels, plays, and works of literary criticism. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I
Chapter 1: Exile
Chapter 2: Making the Family Skeletons Dance
Chapter 3: Purging the Party
Chapter 4: The Letter
Chapter 5: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Chapter 6: To Mosocw, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Chapter 7: In Voronezh, a City Peter Built and Poets Braved
Chapter 8: In the Most High and Palmy State of Rome
Chapter 9: That Way Madness Lies
Chapter 10: Only the Pitiless
Chapter 11: Statistics
Part II
Chapter 12: Pavel’s Polish Pelagia
Chapter 13: Escape from Paradise
Chapter 14: The Haughty Barber
Chapter 15: Anna on the Bubble
Chapter 16: The Worst Cut of All
Chapter 17: To the Finland Station
Razan’s List
Anna’s Notes
Glossary
Part I
Chapter 1: Exile
Chapter 2: Making the Family Skeletons Dance
Chapter 3: Purging the Party
Chapter 4: The Letter
Chapter 5: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Chapter 6: To Mosocw, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Chapter 7: In Voronezh, a City Peter Built and Poets Braved
Chapter 8: In the Most High and Palmy State of Rome
Chapter 9: That Way Madness Lies
Chapter 10: Only the Pitiless
Chapter 11: Statistics
Part II
Chapter 12: Pavel’s Polish Pelagia
Chapter 13: Escape from Paradise
Chapter 14: The Haughty Barber
Chapter 15: Anna on the Bubble
Chapter 16: The Worst Cut of All
Chapter 17: To the Finland Station
Razan’s List
Anna’s Notes
Glossary
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