Anatevka.Anatevka Joseph Krasniansky Anatevka Publishing Suite 3, Butlers Wharf WHARF. A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchandise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge of such vessel. , New Road, Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. , HX7 8AF, United Kingdom 9780955904509, 9.50 British Pounds, www.anatevka-publishing.com In a kind of stream-of-consciousness style of storytelling Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10] Münchäusen Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit. , "Anatevka" is novel that presents the mental ramblings of a 59-year-old man of Russian-Jewish origin who is being treated in a hospital in the North of England for cancer. He once wrote a screenplay based on the story of his mother and grandmother who were separated by the Cold War for 44 years. It was a screenplay for a movie that was never produced. As he lays in his hospital bed under the influence of morphine morphine, principal derivative of opium, which is the juice in the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It was first isolated from opium in 1803 by the German pharmacist F. W. A. , he reminisces about his life and the screenplay, as well as experiencing vividly erotic dreams about the various women he has known in his life. As the doses of morphine are increased, the boundary between fact and fiction in his mind becomes increasingly blurred until at the end, he can no longer distinguish between the film he has created in his head and what had actually happened in his life. "Anatevka" is a novel offering fascinating perspectives on the lives of three generations within a single family who endured the events, challenges, and changes in some 70+ years of Russian and European history from Stalin's purges of 1937 to the collapse of Soviet Communism, to the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. Author Joseph Krasniansky is a deftly deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. skilled novelist with a unique flair for memorable storytelling populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. with equally memorable characters. The result is a highly recommended read that is as entertaining as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking. |
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