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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner

By Meir Shalev

Publisher: Schocken
Pages: 224

The Israeli author remembers his family matriarch's love-hate affair with both dirt and her electric "svieeperrr."

— Karen Holt

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