The Free World

Welcome to Rome. It`s the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family are passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy (especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them), and it`s harder still when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they`re no longer passing through at all. On the contrary, they`re stuck. Welcome, then, to a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home ISBN:978-0-241-95375-4