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  • The Genius Under the Table

  • Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
  • By: Eugene Yelchin
  • Narrated by: Eugene Yelchin
  • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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The Genius Under the Table

By: Eugene Yelchin
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How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything.

With equal amounts of charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

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So good!

Funny and fascinating. The author adds so much as the reader (and is good at voices!). The ending is kind of abrupt, but otherwise, all the stars!

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Beautifully performed & written

This is an excellent book. It may be for young readers, but the insights into life in Russia and what people went through is humorously and fabulously told. I recommended for people of all ages. An awesome eye-opening book.

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