The invention of exile : a novel
Manko, Vanessa
The invention of exile : a novel / Vanessa Manko. - New York : Penguin Press , 2014 - 294 p. ; 24 cm
Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with his family to his home in Russia, they become embroiled in the civil war and must flee once again, to Mexico. While Julia and the children are eventually able to return to the United States, Austin becomes indefinitely stranded in Mexico City because of the black mark on his record. Austin becomes convinced that his engineering designs will be awarded patents, thereby paving the way for the government to approve his return and award his long sought-after American citizenship.
English.
9781594205880
Russian Americans----Fiction
Immigrants---History-----United States--Fiction
Exile---History-----Russia--Fiction
Russian immigrants----Fiction
Deportees ----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3613.A54565 / I69 2014
FIC MAN
The invention of exile : a novel / Vanessa Manko. - New York : Penguin Press , 2014 - 294 p. ; 24 cm
Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with his family to his home in Russia, they become embroiled in the civil war and must flee once again, to Mexico. While Julia and the children are eventually able to return to the United States, Austin becomes indefinitely stranded in Mexico City because of the black mark on his record. Austin becomes convinced that his engineering designs will be awarded patents, thereby paving the way for the government to approve his return and award his long sought-after American citizenship.
English.
9781594205880
Russian Americans----Fiction
Immigrants---History-----United States--Fiction
Exile---History-----Russia--Fiction
Russian immigrants----Fiction
Deportees ----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3613.A54565 / I69 2014
FIC MAN
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