Waiting for Stalin to Die - Volume 133

Fleeing Stalin's advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child's life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved her half-witted brother, struggles to take care of him. Justine, a concert pianist raped during the war, strives to regain her ability to make music. Father Geras, an illegitimate child steered into the priesthood by family, finds purpose in guiding his exiled people. Trying to resume normal lives, longing for their country's freedom, they wait to go home.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Irene Guilford is the author of a novel, The Embrace (Guernica 1999), and the editor of Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Works (Guernica 2001). Her writing has been anthologized, translated into Lithuanian, and shortlisted for the CBC Literary Competition and the Event Creative Non-Fiction Contest. She lives in Toronto

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Irene Guilford, Irene Guilford
• Verlag: Guernica Editions
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781771831536
• ISBN: 978-1-77183-153-6
• Seiten: 170
• Abmessung: 124 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 272 g
• Serien: Essential Prose; Essential Prose; Essential Prose Series
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur