The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain /
Drama, family secrets and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-ob...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
[2021].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Drama, family secrets and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family. |
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| Physical Description: | 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. |
| Awards: | American Library Association Notable Children's Bk |
| ISBN: | 9781536215526 153621552X |