Stalin Ate My Homework (Unabridged)
-
-
4.0 • 27 Ratings
-
-
- £10.99
-
- £10.99
Publisher Description
Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney's Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown round locomotive factories and the sites of Nazi atrocities.
Very funny and (almost) stranger than Alexei's fiction, this is a memoir about how Liverpool, Communism, and a mother that his teachers were frightened of, made him want to leave home and make people laugh.
Customer Reviews
Open the second front NOW
Superb, listened to this a few times and always makes me laugh out loud. His imitation of his mother is particularly good. Hope he is planning to continue the story someday.
Well done Alexei
Absolutely brilliant!
Jewish Communist Liverpudlian Genius
A wonderful tale of Alexei's strange childhood growing up in Liverpool the only son of Jewish Communists taking his holidays behind the Iron Curtain. Narrated by the author it is an easy and amusing listen. Occasional bursts of scouse recreating his own speech or imitating his parents rants at the television are the highlight.