Siberian Exile - Blood, War, and a Granddaughter''s Reckoning

The story of Julija Šukys’s paternal grandparents, a Siberian exile and an accused Nazi war criminal, and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced separation and subsequent reunion.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Part I. Anthony
Part II. Ona
Part III. Us
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Julija Šukys is an associate professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is the author of Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimait¿ (Nebraska, 2012) and Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007).
 
 

Summary

When Julija �ukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught �ukys her family's story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came.

Product details

• Authors: Julija Sukys
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781496216670
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1667-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies