Redemption

by Friedrich Gorenstein and Фридрих Горенштейн

Book Overview

It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her father's death in the war, and denounces her to the authorities for the petty theft that keeps them from going hungry. When she meets a Jewish lieutenant who has returned to bury his family, betrayed and murdered by their neighbors during the occupation, both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231185146
• ISBN13: 9780231185141
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"