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008			150505s20142014nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9781594205880
050	0	0	_aPS3613.A54565 _bI69 2014
082	1		_aFIC MAN _2
100	1		_aManko, Vanessa
245	1	4	_aThe invention of exile : _ba novel _c/ Vanessa Manko.
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2014
300			_a294 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aAustin 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aRussian Americans _v--Fiction
650		4	_aImmigrants _z-United States _x-History-- _vFiction
650		4	_aExile _z-Russia _x-History-- _vFiction
650		4	_aRussian immigrants-- _vFiction
650		4	_aDeportees -- _vFiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c273238 _d273238