Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sweet Snow by Alexander Motyl

Published by Cervena Barva Press, April 9, 2013
ISBN-10: 0988371375
ISBN-13: 978-0988371378

156 pages 

Summary

Sweet Snow is set in the winter of 1933 in Ukraine. A terrible famine is raging in the countryside, while the Soviet secret police is arresting suspected spies in the cities. A German nobleman from Berlin, a Jewish communist from New York, a Polish diplomat from Lwów, and a Ukrainian nationalist from Vienna come to share a cell in some unknown prison. One day, as they are being transported to another prison, their van overturns, their guards are killed, and they are freed — to wander amidst the devastated villages, desolate landscapes, snowbound villages, and frozen corpses. As they struggle to survive, they come to grips with the horror of the famine as well as with their own delusions, weaknesses, and mortality.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Snow-Alexander-Motyl/dp/0988371375

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