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3 unusual facts about David Bezmozgis


David Bezmozgis

Natasha and Other Stories was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2007, where it was championed by Steven Page.

Critics in North America and in Europe have suggested that in this novel Berzmozgis presented through a fictional lens what another Jewish-Soviet immigrant Maxim D. Shrayer had described in his book "Waiting for America" (2007).

It was subsequently nominated for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.


Bathurst Manor

Much of David Bezmozgis's 2004 short story collection Natasha and Other Stories takes place in the general vicinity of the Bathurst Manor in the late 1980s.


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