The Genius Under the Table Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.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.

ISBN:	9781536215526
Publisher:	Walker Books
Imprint:	Candlewick Press
Published date:	05 May 2022
DEWEY:	947.085092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	396g
Height:	160mm
Width:	215mm
Spine width:	24mm

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