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Bezig met laden... The Russlander (2001)door Sandra Birdsell
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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. This a sad but moving story about a woman who survived the Russian Revolution when most of her family did not. It is often difficult to read, but told in a gentle way. A great sroty of great courage and the ability to move forward when the world seems to stop. ( ) Katya is born as the third child to a fairly well-to-do Mennonite family who settled in the Ukraine, near Odessa a few years before the first World War. She is eight in 1910, when the story starts and twelve at the beginning of the war. She and her family go through horrendous time during the war and the ensuing anarchy of the Bolshevik revolution, which she then relates as an old woman living in Winnipeg to a young man interested in Mennonite history. This is the form the book takes- Kathy’s memories aided by the journal she wrote, complete with old letters, recipes, and newspaper articles. At the beginning, I felt overwhelmed by the number of characters introduced all at the same time and felt lost in all the connections among them, but then managed to sort them out and got engaged both in them and in the storytelling. I found the story interesting, with an outstanding portrayal of the community, not only that of Mennonites, but also Russian peasants, and rich in evocative imagery of nature and memorable episodes. Overall, it was a worthwhile read and a good background to Toew’s novel, A Complicated Kindness. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. In the aftermath of that violence, and in the difficult years that follow, Katya tries to come to terms with the terrible events that befell her and her family. In lucid, spellbinding prose, Birdsell vividly evokes time and place, and the unease that existed in a county on the brink of revolutionary change. The Russländer is a powerful and moving story of ordinary people who lived through extraordinary times. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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