The Future of Nostalgia

“A remarkable book… brilliant.”—New York Times

“Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia is a massive, sophisticated and brilliant study… a rewarding cross-genre book.”—Globe and Mail

“Erudite and witty, fact-filled and deeply-felt, this moving meditation on the vicissitudes of time, loss and longing will provoke us to think anew about the ambiguities of our collective sensibility and the perennial needs of the individual soul.”—Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation

“Svetlana Boym’s brilliant, witty, ironic, penetrating dissection of ‘nostalgia,’ in all its manifestations – nationalist, diasporic, exilic, literary, personal – is, above all, deeply moving. In casting a cool but tender eye on the contradictions of everyday existence today, this is a unique book.”—Marjorie Perloff, author of The Vienna Paradox

“Dazzling erudition, sexy narrative drive, and an elegant aesthetic sensibility make The Future of Nostalgia a work of profound insight and intellectual excitement… an indispensable book for anyone trying to make sense of the twentieth century.”—Larry Wolff, author of Inventing Eastern Europe