By Maria Tumarkin
ISBN-10: 186471588X
ISBN-13: 9781864715880
'I left too early, ahead of tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and prior to Gorbachev was once placed below domestic arrest in a failed coup. I left earlier than Russia and Ukraine grew to become separate international locations, sooner than the KGB files have been opened, prior to the Russian model of Wheel of Fortune, prior to the notice 'Gulag' seemed in textbooks. I left prior to Chechnya, earlier than the mass renaming of towns and streets, ahead of you'll pass right into a store and truly buy the books of Brodsky, Pasternak and Nabokov. I left too early, I ignored the full element. i used to be now not there whilst my new release used to be cornered through history.' Maria Tumarkin travels together with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, again to Russia and Ukraine to have her event first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's local state. For Maria the journey again is not any basic walk down reminiscence lane. Splintered and scattered the world over, her new release has ended up inhabiting drastically diversified realities. in addition to exploring the political and...
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Jvanetsky was telling us to fear nothing, yet we were going. We feared a lot, of course, and that is why, to some extent at least, we were packing. We feared that in our neck of the woods, any outbreak of nationalist sentiment, any movement for ethnic self-determination and independence, would invariably result in Jews being seen as the root of, if not all then most, evil. Anti-Semitism officially condemned by the government, but practised by it clandestinely and viciously, seemed likely to become the opium of the embittered masses, and we did not want to stick around for that.
Or maybe they were ripped off us – by emigration in my case (I was fifteen when my family left the former Soviet Union); in Billie's by her mother's failed attempts to make a nuclear family. Because she has never met her biological father, she has already learned the rudiments of emotional self-defence – bravado, deflection, improvisation, acute storytelling. I have heard her matter-of-factly describe the father of her little brother, Miguel, as my second ex-stepfather, a title which sums up both the rather high turnover of male figures in her life and Billie's refusal to keep quiet and ashamed about her family's unorthodox ways.
Her memories of that trip were created retrospectively from a plentiful supply of photographs – on one of her favourites she ran giddily in a gorgeous pink dress through a park in central Moscow that was immortalised in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita; on another she sat expertly in her aeroplane seat waiting for take-off with the mild irritation of a seasoned long-distance traveller on her face. As to Ukraine, I have never made it there till now, with or without Billie. Right now is my last chance to go back with her and still be the centrifugal force of our journey, exercising the course-setting and veto powers.