The Sojourn

Andrew Krivak

eBook - 2011

National Book Award FinalistChautauqua Prize WinnerDayton Literary Peace Prize Winner"Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. Rather, it looks deeply into its characters' lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own." —National Book Award judges' citationThe Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns... with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser's army, surviving a perilous trek across...

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Published
Bellevue Literary Press
Language
English
Main Author
Andrew Krivak
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size362 MB
ISBN9781934137413
Release Date4/19/2011
Kindle Book
ASINB004TNL84Q
Release Date4/19/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781934137413
Release Date4/19/2011