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Away from the dead

Bergen, David 1957- (author.).

Summary: Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution. As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. Lehn, a bookseller south of Kiev, deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; Sablin, an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy, runs with the anarchists only to discover that love and the planting of crops is preferable to killing; Inna, a beautiful young peasant, tries to stop a Mennonite landowner from stealing her child. In a world of violence, Sablin, Lehn, and Inna learn to love and hate and love again, hoping, against all odds, that one can turn away from the dead.

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  • ISBN: 9781773103105 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    224 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Federicton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane, [2023]
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject: Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
Mennonites -- Fiction
Anarchists -- Fiction
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction
Ukraine -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

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