The Embrace

By Irene Guilford

When the German Army invades Lithuania during World War 2, Edvardas flees the country and his brother stays behind. At the end of the war they both marry, one in the free West the other behind the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550710869
• ISBN13: 9781550710861
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ for First Generation Lithuanians

I absolutely loved this book! In 150, fast moving, well-written pages Irena Guilford manages to capture the first generation Lithuanian experience PERFECTLY. She not only demonstrates a profound understanding of the common guilt and responsibility that Lithuanian exiles felt, and still feel, for their homeland and the loved ones left behind, (and for the "true" or "new" Lithuanians who have come to the America's, post 1990, with their feelings of resentment at having been left behind the Soviet curtain to suffer, both physically and economically)but for her generation, my generation, caught between these two worlds. Belonging to both -- to neither. Anyone who grew up first generation Lithuanian, will think that this jewel was written specifically about them!