Published by Coteau Books, September 2012ISBN: 9781550505139
448 pages
Summary
Blood and Salt imagines the lives of men interned in Banff National Park from 1915 to 1917. Prisoners lived in tents at Castle Mountain in the summer and in bunkhouses in Banff in the winter.
In August, 1915, a young man finds himself on a train bound for Castle Mountain. "What have I done wrong?" he wonders. "Why am I here?"
He came to Canada to be with his love, Halya. Now he doesn't know if he'll ever find her.
Taras does make wonderful friends in the internment camp: Yuriy the optimistic young farmer; Tymko the radical socialist; Myroslav the scholarly schoolteacher; Ihor the Hutsul; Bohdan the carver. These men help him survive. In the evening the men tell each other their stories. As Taras talks about his life, his understanding grows; he becomes a storyteller.
Taras's love, Halya, is a strong-willed, passionate, and unsentimental woman, determined to be with the man she chooses, despite her father's objections. Taras thinks of her on the train to Castle Mountain.
Another layer of the story reveals the life of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's great poet, artist, and patriot. Taras's friend Myroslav tells stories of Shevchenko's love of Ukrainian culture and his desire for Ukraine to become a free, independent country.
Excerpted from: http://www.barbarasapergia.com/
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