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Bezig met laden... The Sojourndoor Andrew Krivak
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) LyndaWolters1 | Apr 3, 2024 |  This is the first in a trilogy (so far, I guess), I read the third one from Librarything Early Reviewers. The publisher enclosed this copy, and I went out and purchased the one between. Multigenerational saga of men (mostly) in combat, shuttling across the Atlantic, emigrating to the US, then leaving in a hurry back to Austria. I had folks around Pueblo in the 1890s, I wonder if they knew of the opening train accident, if it is based on an actual event? ( ) kcshankd | Dec 2, 2023 |  ) banjo123 | Feb 17, 2023 | After he’s released Jozef returns home after a long and arduous trip. His father has died but has stashed some gold in a cave for him. Jozef returns to America, wondering “what would await me there in the country in which I was born but had never belonged.” This is a beautifully written book with the feel of one that will continue to grow in repute. (  )1  Hagelstein | Jun 2, 2021 | The narrator, Josef Vinich endures extreme hardships from weather, terrain, the enemy, and his superiors that are conveyed powerfully with stark, clean writing. This is an incredible debut novel. ( ) LenJoy | Mar 14, 2021 |
 ... Andrew Krivak, nominated for a National Book Award for The Sojourn, has created a gripping and harrowing war story that has the feel of a classic. Jozef evolves convincingly from an eager young soldier indifferent to the lives he takes, to a wreck of a man who fully understands all that has been lost in the endless fighting. Like all classic war stories, this one can't help but make you wonder about the futility of war and the devastation it leaves in its path...  “Charged with emotion and longing . . . this lean, resonant debut [is] an undeniably powerful accomplishment.” PrijzenOnderscheidingen
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: National Book Award Finalist "Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. Rather, it looks deeply into its characters' lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own." ??National Book Award judges' citation The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser's army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author's own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amid the unfolding tragedy in Europe. Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenAndrew Krivak's boek The Sojourn was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.84)
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