Satılan yayın hakları: İngilizce (ABD): Viking/Penguin,İItalyanca: Garzanti, Fransızca: Belfond, Hollandaca: de Arbeiderspers, Sırpça: Mono – Manana

A gorgeously written novel about the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of contemporary Russia, and the immigration experience of a lone teenage girl as she learns to reconcile two seemingly irreconcilable worlds—one Soviet/Russian, one immigrant/American.

"A beautiful, far-ranging voice equally at home on both sides of the Atlantic...Anya Ulinich's satiric romp gives new meaning to the word 'bittersweet."

- Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan

"Petropolis is a real feast of sharp wit, quirky characters and amazing situations."

- Lara Vapnyar, author of Memoirs of a Muse and There Are Jews in My House

From Booklist
*Starred Review* When a coming-of-age novel is truly different, it can send shock waves through unsuspecting readers. This brave blend of satire, farce, and heart-wrenching realism delivers the necessary voltage to do just that. First-novelist Ulinich sets out as if she intends to lampoon the whole idea of coming-of-age. Teenager Sasha Goldberg, a pudgy parody of the archetypal outsider, is a mixed-race Russian Jew living with her mother in a mining camp called Asbestos 2, once a Stalinist model town but now a postglasnost embarrassment. When your entire universe, internal and external, needs escaping from, the very notion of escape becomes a bad joke. So it is for Sasha ("For a Jew, you sure look like a Negro," one of her friends tells her), whose every attempt at escape leads to an even more absurd reality than the one she left behind. A furtive romance results in pregnancy, but when her mother usurps the baby, Sasha decamps to America as a mail-order bride, landing in Arizona with an old-school husband whose Crown Victoria "is as long as Sasha Goldberg's whole life." From there it's off to Chicago, where, as the "pet Soviet Jew" of a rich Orthodox couple, Sasha trades one kind of servitude for another. One more escape lands our heroine in Brooklyn, in search of her father, who abandoned the family when she was an infant. Ulinich plays this absurdist immigrant's journey for all its black-comedic potential, but she never loses sight of Sasha's bedrock humanity. Her triumphs are attenuated at every turn by lingering levels of despair, but her ability to find a pulse of life in even the most outrageous turns of fortune lifts the novel as far beyond parody as it is beyond convention.

"Ulinich is unflinchingly funny, sensitive, and a superb new talent."

-Akhil Sharma, author of An Obedient Father

"For a girl from a bleak Siberian town, Ulinich's protagonist Sasha Goldberg has a surprisingly big heart and a hysterical view of life in America. PETROPOLIS is a compassionate and unusual debut."

- Laura Dave, author of London Is The Best City In America

“How did she do it?  Anya Ulinich has written -- and in a second language, no less -- a smashing debut, at once a deeply moving coming-of-age odyssey and a globe-spanning satire of societies gone desperately and hilariously awry.  I loved Petropolis for its bone-dry humor, eye-popping authenticity, and vividly realized characters.  Most of all, I loved Sasha Goldberg.  Through its darkest and most comic moments, this book made me very, very happy.”

-Katherine Shonk, author of The Red Passport  

"In the wonderfully spirited PETROPOLIS, Anya Ulinich has given us

impossible-not-to-love Sasha Goldberg.  Her astonishing journey -- from

Siberian misfit to mail-order bride to Brooklyn mom -- is nothing short

of epic."

--Elisa Albert, author of HOW THIS NIGHT IS DIFFERENT