History's Child - Softcover

"A deftly crafted and compelling read from beginning to end, History's Child is one of those saga-length novels that will linger in the mind and memory long after it has been finished and set back upon the shelf. History's Child is very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community and academic library Literary Fiction collections."-- "Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)

Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village. After the war, at fourteen, he begins to run messages and guns for the anti-Stalin diehards still hiding in the woods. At seventeen he's leading a double life, falling in love with a village girl, and dreaming about marriage and a job, while spying on NKVD agents at night. But someone betrays the partisans: their camp is destroyed; Tadek is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence.