Olha mak (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. 56 pages. Ukrainian text, illustrated. Hard-to-find title. Book.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Olha Mak, author of several novels for adolescents and young adults, wrote Stones Under the Scythe to help shatter a conspiracy of silence and deliberate denial about one of the most terrible tragedies to befall any nation, a catastrophe caused by the workings of a group of fanatical 'creators of a new breed of men.' The characters in the novel are composites of individuals and the narrative is based on real events the author witnessed as a university student. The story of 15 yearold Andriy recreates the fate of millions of Ukrainian children who either perished or barely escaped death in the years of a man-made famine, the Holodomor, that took the life of every fourth Ukrainian. However, Olha Mak's novel is not a somber story of horrible events. Her characters bear witness to the truth that the human spirit cannot be fully subdued. But this is a truth that needs frequent reminders, for everyone at some point comes to feel vanquished by the brutality that confronts them.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnOlha Mak, author of several novels for adolescents and young adults, wrote Stones Under the Scythe to help shatter a conspiracy of silence and deliberate denial about one of the most terrible tragedies to befall any nation, a cata.