Open MIC Night in Moscow And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
24.07.2018
Verlag
Harper Collins (US)Seitenzahl
416
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.8/3.8 cm
Gewicht
566 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-06-282329-8
The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.
Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Siberia are not the typical tourist destinations of a twenty-something, nor the places one usually goes to eat, pray, and/or love. But the mix of imperial Russian opulence and Soviet decay, and the allure of emotionally unavailable Russian men proved strangely irresistible to comedian Audrey Murray.
At age twenty-eight, while her friends were settling into corporate jobs and serious relationships, Audrey was on a one-way flight to Kazakhstan, the first leg of a nine-month solo voyage through the former USSR. A blend of memoir and offbeat travel guide, this thoughtful, hilarious catalog of a young comedian's adventures is also a diary of her emotional discoveries about home, love, patriotism, loneliness, and independence.
Sometimes surprising, often disconcerting, and always entertaining, Open Mic Night in Moscow will inspire you to take the leap and embark on your own journey into the unknown. And, if you want to visit Chernobyl by way of an insane-asylum-themed bar in Kiev, Audrey can assure you that there's no other guidebook out there. (She's looked.)
- Solo Female Travel: Follow a twenty-eight-year-old comedian who trades a traditional life for a one-way ticket to Kazakhstan and a nine-month voyage through the former USSR.
- Humorous Memoir: Laugh-out-loud stories about getting kidnapped in Turkmenistan, opening for a meditative drum circle, and dealing with garbage bags full of cash.
- Off-the-Beaten-Path Adventure: An offbeat travelogue that takes you from a secret museum in Uzbekistan to an afternoon in Chernobyl.
- Love and Loneliness Abroad: A poignant and funny look at independence for anyone who’s ever wondered what to do when your friends are getting married and you’re still obsessed with emotionally unavailable Russian men.
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