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M ost people know Alexei Sayle from the telly, from The Young Ones , or The Comic Strip Presents . . . Fewer know him for his novels and short stories, such as Mister Roberts and The Weeping Women Hotel . After all, in a lifetime of finite duration, there are only so many novels by comedians that any sane person will want to read, and most of them are written by Steve Martin. There is probably even less time in the average life to devote to the reading of memoirs by comedians, the complete works of Spike Milligan being more than sufficient for most us, while strictly speaking Alan Bennett isn't a comedian any more; he's a proper writer. But there is now one more book to add to the very short list: Sayle's Stalin Ate My Homework . It is not like other comedians' memoirs. It's funny. (And the novels are pretty good too.)

Stalin Ate My Homework is essentially Sayle's love letter to his parents, Joe and Molly. Joe worked on the railways as a goods guard, was incurably cheerful, always wore a trilby, taught himself French and Esperanto, and was a communist. Red-haired Molly spoke Yiddish, had five sisters and a brother, and prepared salads instead of roast dinners on a Sunday. If they were not the only Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool, the Sayles were certainly one of the more eccentric.

As a child, Alexei – named after Maxim Gorky, real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov – was "subject to all kinds of restrictions, caveats and provisos, both physical and ideological". He was not, for example, allowed to go and see Walt Disney's Bambi with his friends. Instead, his parents took him to see Alexander Nevsky at the Unity Theatre. Not surprisingly, he grew up with a feeling of being just a little bit unusual.

Molly's father, Alexander Mendelson, was the shamas at the Crown Street synagogue in Liverpool. Sayle's descriptions of his grandfather's house are like something out of Bernard Malamud: "The house appeared very bare, with large stretches of warm linoleum in the hall; everybody seemed as pale as a ghost, and there was always the smell of poor people's soup. The only things that shone brightly were the oddly shaped religious artifacts on the sideboard, their polished brass flanks decorated with strange foreign writing that looked like it had come off the side of a flying saucer. During these calls it felt like we were visiting the embassy of a very poor and distant country."

Every sentence there has something surprising in it. Which is how Sayle works – with little flashes everywhere, like miniature jokes or surrealist flourishes. "One dark autumn evening in Crown Street I wandered out into the back yard to find Uncle Monty sitting in a rough, temporary shed with a roof made out of palm leaves, eating two fried eggs with his hat on." He was celebrating Sukkot.

A perk of Joe's working on the railways was reduced-price European rail travel. So, naturally, when holidays came around, the Sayles headed off behind the iron curtain. In Czechoslovakia ("a place so foreign it had a 'Z' in its name") the Sayles find themselves in a topsy-turvy world where they're met by limousines, wined and dined, and generally treated like royalty. Even the sight-seeing trips aren't exactly your average: "Communist party authorities at the highest level had decided that what the first delegation of British railwaymen to Czechoslovakia would like to see more than anything else were sights, locations and exhibits connected with the wartime assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague." The sights of Nazi reprisals, Sayle writes, "were our Wooky Hole".

Back in England, the family live a quiet life in Anfield, two miles from the docks and half a mile from Liverpool FC. Sayle depicts a world long since disappeared. The party line on the telephone ("You would lift up the telephone only to find your neighbour was already on it talking at great length about their hernia operation"); the Co-op and the general store; the works of Jack London proudly on the shelf. And yelling "Don't forget Stalingrad!" and "Capitalist propaganda!" at the TV.

In the latter part of the book, Sayle goes on to recount his adventures in Paris in 1968 and finally his departure for art school, but Joe and Molly remain the real heroes, with their high ideals and their house full of Soviet trinkets and "folklorique woven things". Sayle knows that for better and for worse, his parents made him what he is: they are the book's foundations. Underneath his grandfather's house there was, apparently, a labyrinth of secret tunnels, built by the Liverpool businessman Joseph Williamson as an early kind of job-creation scheme. Sayle's mother's family dug a hole in their back yard and used the tunnels to dump their rubbish – "as if it were the most natural thing in the world to have a network of secret passages underneath your house". As if.

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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.

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This is really funny. I was born about the same time as Alexei, and know what was going on at the time. So it really is an extraordinary story, full of humour. I highly recommend this book

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Very interesting story and adventures. Well written, funny and informative. Alexei's delivery is brilliant, and engaging

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unusual, interesting and funny

His story mainly deals with his very young and early life growing up with his communist parents and his holidays in eastern europe. I was hoping that he would talk about his later life on tv etc but perhaps that will come in a later book. Notwithstanding that I enjoyed the book, his narration and his very very unusual young lfe.

Entertaining with a fair dollop of self criticism

He ticks all the boxes: Vivid memory, healthy disregard for convention paired with acute attention to detail, not to forget having a good laugh at oneself. In this instance, having the author read it himself is a great advantage. Recommended.

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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.

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So good I wanted to write about my own childhood

Engaging, funny, touching and incredibly evocative of the world of the 50s. Well read by the author - this is not always the case with authors. I do hope there will be a follow up.

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love and laughter

written with such fondness for his parents that you will end up loving them too, but so incredibly funny that I found myself laughing out loud on a crowded bus until people sitting around me were laughing too.

I wish I’d named our dog Molka

This is an excellent book, wonderfully narrated. Sayle is great and his early life fascinating even extraordinary. I hope one day he does the next instalment.

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• Overall 4 out of 5 stars

Parts are very funny, the book is basically an autobiography of his early years - a very interesting and very unusual childhood, so it not meant to be consistently amusing but he looks back with humour and fondness for his parents and the sometimes bizare circumstances he finds himself in.

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If you like Alexei Sayle then you cannot help but like this; it's hilarious. His story of growing up in a Communist family in 1960s Liverpool is told episodically with immense warmth and vivid charm.

Enjoyable look at the road to adulthood

As a fellow scoucer there are things that resonated with me. But the joy of the story lies in listening to tales of someone trying to find his way just like the rest of us. Thanks Alexei , Molly and joe for a brilliant story.

Narrated by the author so if you like Alexei you’re in for a treat. Full of his pithy one liners he describes his unique upbringing.

A fascinating life story.

Alexei Sayle had a childhood like no other. He tells it hilariously and warmly. I loved this book.

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A remarkable insight into the life of one of the UKs best comedians... and the minds of his communist parents.

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Stalin ate my homework audible audiobook – unabridged.

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.

• Listening Length 8 hours and 42 minutes
• Author Alexei Sayle
• Narrator Alexei Sayle
• Audible release date 8 Sept. 2010
• Language English
• Publisher Hodder Headline Limited
• ASIN B0042G4WWA
• Version Unabridged
• Program Type Audiobook
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Stalin Ate My Homework Paperback – January 1, 2010

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• Print length 352 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Hodder Export
• Publication date January 1, 2010
• Dimensions 6.1 x 0.91 x 9.17 inches
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder Export (January 1, 2010)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0340919582
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340919583
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.91 x 9.17 inches

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