Boris Fishman on The Master & Margarita, from the foreword to the Penguins Books edition

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Boris Fishman on The Master & Margarita, from the foreword to the Penguins Books edition

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Boris Fishman’s new Savage Feast is part memoir, part cookbook, telling the stories of how his family was scarred by the horror and deprivation of World War II, and how that time shaped their attitudes towards food for decades afterward. He talked to NPR’s David Greene about the book -- and about Oksana, the home-care aide whose ambrosial cooking helped bridge the divide between Fishman and his very Soviet grandfather. Check out their conversation -- and find one of Oksana’s recipes -- here.
-- Petra
“If I know, I know in a part of myself that’s a secret,” she says in a barely audible voice. Kamil smiles slightly—she is trying to speak poetically, the way they speak in the country. That part of the old culture will survive. The language is not fully innocent of what its users purveyed, but it is no guiltier than a gun. Both have no will and infinite power. “No man caused me more pain than your father,” Kamil says. “And yet, would I be here without him? I doubt it. I think about him all the time.”
The Unwanted, Boris Fishman
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Boris Fishman about his latest novel, “The Unwanted.”
Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Boris Fishman about his latest novel, “The Unwanted.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1940/1967)
“For all its discomfort, firsthand experience of being an outsider is a shorter route to empathy than even the most well-meaning imagination.”
-Boris Fishman
SavÂage Feast: Three GenÂerÂaÂtions, Two ConÂtiÂnents, and a DinÂner Table (a MemÂoir with Recipes) by Boris FishÂman
SavÂage Feast: Three GenÂerÂaÂtions, Two ConÂtiÂnents, and a DinÂner Table (a MemÂoir with Recipes) by Boris FishÂman
The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.
A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s…
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