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by Lily Alex

Author:	Lily Alex
Subcategory:	Contemporary
Language:	English
Publisher:	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 17, 2012)
Pages:	318 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.4
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The Russians are coming! book. The story is an imaginative and spirited narrative embracing both diversity and universality

The Russians are coming! book. The story is an imaginative and spirited narrative embracing both diversity and universality. Set in small-town America (199 ), the novel's main characters, six Russian newcomers, provide a fresh perspective on a close-knit college community. Two couples, one child, and a single woman make up the core group. The story follows them and offers to the reader the unique The story is an imaginative and spirited narrative embracing both diversity and universality.

Six Russian newcomers arrive in a small American college town (199& bring about profound changes to both their . The novel follows this core group, and a cast of peripheral characters, over fourteen months of infidelity, jealousy, friendship and love

Six Russian newcomers arrive in a small American college town (199& bring about profound changes to both their own and their neighbor's relationships . .The novel follows this core group, and a cast of peripheral characters, over fourteen months of infidelity, jealousy, friendship and love. All are forced to confront their fates, and the luckiest learn to appreciate what they have and to reach out for what they desire.

Set in small-town America, (199~ year) the novel's main characters, six Russian newcomers, provide a fresh perspective on a close-knit college community, showing over fourteen months of infidelity, jealousy, friendship and love.

The story is an imaginative and spirited narrative embracing both diversity and universality. The Russians Are Coming! : 14 Months in the Life of the Town.

Publishamerica, America Star Books.

The Russians Are Coming!: 14 Months in the Life of the Town Format: Paperback; Subject: Literary Collections; Publisher: PublishAmerica. Publishamerica, America Star Books.

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The Russians Are Coming is not the best comedy of the year but it stands out in a lean period for good old American slapstick

The Russians Are Coming is not the best comedy of the year but it stands out in a lean period for good old American slapstick. Over-rated but still holds up as a moderately amusing sit-com lightweight parody of the cold-war and small-town America.

But when it comes to moving to Russia, this challenge is particularly .

But when it comes to moving to Russia, this challenge is particularly interesting. Teodora Delcheva, an exchange student from University College London explores eight myths about Russia and how they compare to reality. Many people think that Russians cannot adapt to Western culture and generally life here is much different. It is dangerous!' 'Russia is dangerous' – your concerned aunt must have warned you.

The story is an imaginative and spirited narrative embracing both diversity and universality. Set in small-town America (199~), the novel's main characters, six Russian newcomers, provide a fresh perspective on a close-knit college community. Two couples, one child, and a single woman make up the core group. The story follows them and offers to the reader the unique opportunity to explore not only the surface differences between Russian and American lifestyles, but the more profound similarities. Uncertainty, infidelity, and betrayal plague both the immigrants and their fellow townsfolk, but such universal redeemers as love, family, and friendship are the fundamental ties that bind. Narrowed to a specific fourteen-month time frame, but enhanced with flashbacks and epilogue, the novel shows everyday life in both countries. Jealousies, lusts, and misdemeanors (and even organized crime!) have their place, as do finer passions for truth, learning, love, and simple neighborliness. The novel is, by turns, tragic and heart-warming, passionate and instructive, but always, and ultimately, hope-filled.

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Hanad

When `The Russians' Vera Grach and Gleb Merkulov, Vlad Lapin and his wife Nina and daughter Larisa as well as Marina Alexsandrova arrive, folks in town are a bit unsure of what they may want or what their own reaction to them should be. Before long Marina finds a job at the local college where she is an assistant to a married professor. David Van Stein and his wife Megan are parents of two young children. Vera develops a friendship with policeman Jeff Menard, Gleb returns and dies at the hands of another in Moscow and scientist Vlad spends Halloween evening trying to figure out the properties found in the bowl of lollipops his wife set out for little Trick-or-Treaters. Townspeople become disenchanted with professor Van Stein when they believe him to engage in an affair with Marina. Nina's mother Alla comes to visit from Russia and before long she and a local gentleman are drawn to one another. Bill only realizes the depth of his feelings after Alla returns to Russia. He soon follows. The book ends with Vlad and Nina preparing for the birth of their second child.
In The Russians Are Coming Lily Alex has produced an interesting glimpse into the lives of a group of common folks who move to a new area and begin to carve out lives for themselves. As with most of us while the lives of the six are dissimilar they cling to one another because of their ethnic tie. The various relationships described by writer Alex in The Russians Are Coming evolve much as is found in real life. Old relationships die, new ones are formed. Romance is lost under the skillful pen of writer Alex and is found again on the pages of The Russians Are Coming.
The book The Russians Are Coming is written in the delightful Alex technique, Writer Alex is Russian by birth, English is her second language and the book The Russians Are Coming embodies the best of both. From the opening lines The Russians Are Coming is set in the student's laboratory where we find Professor Stein speaking into a cell phone to the last paragraphs when we are told more Russians are coming writer Alex crafts an energetic tale filled with dynamic characters, intrigue and upbeat settings. Characters are fully fleshed, dialogue is potent, action maintains a steady forward clip.
A good book for a quiet evening The Russians Are Coming is an enjoyable read.
Reviewed by: molly martin

IWAS

I loved! I think it is a great book. Some parts are funny, some - very sad, but it's always something cool! I love true, real life stories! I especially liked the episodes with Goldy (what a name! I'll call MY dog that) and the scene with Easter Rabbit! The author could show exactly how a child's opinion often is different from an adult view. Since you (readers) haven't read the book yet, try it!

Dozilkree

THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING is a combination of romance, race relations and cultural differences all visited upon a small enclave of Russians at a university in America. The town is so backward that it still blasts a siren at 10 AM every morning - a holdover from the Cold War. A romance with a black person is taboo not only from a white point of view but also from the black community.
A stunning college student, Marina falls in love with David VanSteinn, her professor. The very married David is not immune to the Marina's lure and this could cause problems in his marriage. Gleb is married to Vera but he has a roving eye and his eye mostly roves toward women with money, which is far more important to him than his marriage. Gleb also has shady dealings with organized crime in Russia. A black policeman has fallen for Vera even though he doesn't really know her. When he takes her to visit his black church, he receives less than a warm welcome. Vlad and Nina seem to have a solid marriage but there are insecurities on both sides. Nina is rather plain and chubby and Vlad works all the time. Because he notices how flaky his friends are when it comes to relationships he wonders if Nina is straying.
The novel has its moments of suspense and drama. The people are almost too real as we follow them through their various relationships. There is an urge to tell them to stop and think about what they are about to do, not only to themselves but their respective partners. It was a very interesting novel and gave some insight into another culture.
Reviewed by alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

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