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Alex Halberstadt's quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather, most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. He returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a…mehr

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Alex Halberstadt's quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather, most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania, his Jewish mother's home, to examine the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti-Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for. He returns to his birthplace, Moscow, where his grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers' wives, his mother consoled dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a dangerous living by selling black-market American records. Halberstadt also explores his own story: that of an immigrant growing up in New York, another in a line of sons separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history.
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Alex Halberstadt estudió en el Oberlin College y en la Universidad de Columbia. Es el autor de las memorias familiares «Jóvenes héroes de la Unión Soviética», uno de los mejores libros del 2020 para The New York Times, y de «Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus». Colabora habitualmente con The New York Times Magazine y también ha escrito para medios como The New Yorker o The New York Times Book Review. Ha sido nominado dos veces para el premio James Beard a la excelencia en periodismo y ha recibido becas de la MacDowell Colony y de Yaddo. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Nueva York.