Full Description
Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin's personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts—including one from Razan himself.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I
Chapter 1: Exile
Chapter 2: Making the Family Skeletons Dance
Chapter 3: Purging the Party
Chapter 4: The Letter
Chapter 5: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Chapter 6: To Mosocw, to Moscow, to Moscow!
Chapter 7: In Voronezh, a City Peter Built and Poets Braved
Chapter 8: In the Most High and Palmy State of Rome
Chapter 9: That Way Madness Lies
Chapter 10: Only the Pitiless
Chapter 11: Statistics
Part II
Chapter 12: Pavel's Polish Pelagia
Chapter 13: Escape from Paradise
Chapter 14: The Haughty Barber
Chapter 15: Anna on the Bubble
Chapter 16: The Worst Cut of All
Chapter 17: To the Finland Station
Razan's List
Anna's Notes
Glossary
