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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dissident
  name:
    name part: Goldberg, Paul
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 411 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
  abstract: A thrilling, witty and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene, two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel. He sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish and not. But then the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street, he's given a choice, find the real murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later, when Henry Kissinger is arriving in Moscow. Ax murders, it seems, aren't good for politics. A whip-smart, often hilarious Cold War thriller, Paul Goldberg's The Dissident explores what it means to survive in the face of impossible choices and monumental consequences. To solve the case, Viktor ropes in his community, which includes his banned-text-distributing wife, a hard-drinking sculptor, a Russian priest of Jewish heritage and a visiting American intent on reliving World War II heroics. As Viktor struggles to figure out whom to trust, he's forced to question not only the KGB's murky motives but also those of his fellow refuseniks, and the man he admires above all: the Secretary of State himself. Immersive, unpredictable and always ax-sharp, The Dissident is Cold War intrigue at its most inventive: an uncompromising look at sacrifice, community and the scars of history and identity, from an expert storyteller.
  note: Paul Goldberg.
  note: Maps on endpapers.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    topic: Refuseniks
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Soviet Union
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    topic: Investigation
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Moscow (Russia)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3607.O4434 D57 2023
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781250208590
  identifier: 1250208599
  identifier: 2022060045
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221213
    record change date: 20230913162414.9
    record identifier: in00004731021