Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Auteur de Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel

4 oeuvres 213 utilisateurs 19 critiques

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Comprend les noms: YelenaAkhtiorskaya, Jelena Ahtjorskaja

Crédit image: from Princeton University Creative Writing Program page

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Date de naissance: 1985
Sexe: female
Lieu de naissance: Odessa, Ukraine
Lieux de résidence: Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Études: Columbia University (MFA)
Hunter College (BA)
Professions: Lecturer in Creative Writing, Princeton University
Prix et distinctions: National Book Foundation, 5 Under 35 Honoree (2014)

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Panic in a suitcase : a novel par Yelena Akhtiorskaya

I really wanted to like this book. But I was not able to enjoy it. Maybe it was something off putting about the characters or the way they were presented to the reader.

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fivelrothberg | 17 autres critiques | May 28, 2024 |

Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel par Yelena Akhtiorskaya

I won this book from Goodreads, and I was very much looking forward to reading it. Unfortunately I just could not get into it. I found both the writing style - lack of punctuation, unfinished thoughts, confusing phrasing, and the unlikeable characters so off-putting that I could not, and quite frankly would not allow myself to spend anymore time on this novel. I made it almost halfway through, but it was just annoying.

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Rdra1962 | 17 autres critiques | Aug 1, 2018 |

Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel par Yelena Akhtiorskaya

I am not a big poetry fan, and some of Akhtiorskaya's prose gets a bit too poetry-like for my taste, but then again one of her main characters in this novel is Pasha, a poet whose poetry may well have the same vague heaviness and semi-logical feel that the poetry-like bits of this novel exhibit. This novel is very 'Russian', reminding me very much of my college Russian language instructors, and the parts set in the US give an interesting perspective on a subculture of the US that I otherwise am not really familiar with. I enjoyed this book a lot.… (plus d'informations)

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JBarringer | 17 autres critiques | Dec 30, 2017 |

Panic in a Suitcase par Yelena Akhtiorskaya

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i kept wondering if this book was translated from another language, since it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Not a lot happened, other than descriptions of members of a family both in Brooklyn and their native Ukraine. I didn't care about the characters, and everyone seemed a little sad. There are positive reviews (including the New York Times), so maybe I'm missing something.

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ennie | 17 autres critiques | Nov 11, 2017 |

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