[download pdf] The Delegation by Avner Landes
The Delegation by Avner Landes
- The Delegation
- Avner Landes
- Page: 364
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781736344699
- Publisher: Operation Dodecahedron
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Overview
"Most of the time history merely happens to people, and to some people more than others." Moscow, 1943. The Soviet Army has defeated the Nazis at Stalingrad, but continuing to defend the Motherland will require arms, money, and allies around the world. To rally support, Joseph Stalin dispatches a delegation of two Jewish artists, the world-renowned actor (and self-appointed Head Jew of the Soviet Union) Solomon Mikhoels and his Party handler, the middling poet Lieutenant Colonel Itzik Feffer. In pursuit of their noble cause, Mikhoels and Feffer meet a wealthy lawyer turned artist and his idiot cousin, entreat a tongueless heiress, compare notes with an oversexed Albert Einstein, and share the stage with the great Paul Robeson. Less than ten years later, they would both be murdered. Truth and fiction eye each other warily in this true story as told by a fictional author struggling to pen an epic work of historical fiction.