商品簡介
In 1939, Hitler's tyranny approaches western Poland. A prosperous Jewish family--Julius and Josefina Kohn and their two teenaged children, Peter and Suzanna--flee their homeland, embarking on an unexpected odyssey of six-thousand arduous miles. They evade Nazi capture, only to be arrested by the Soviets, who have invaded Poland from the east. Deported to northern Russia, they endure savage conditions during eighteen months of forced labor in a prison camp, where death lurks around every corner. When Hitler breaks a secret pact with Stalin, and the Nazis invade the USSR, the release of Polish prisoners in the Soviet Gulag is negotiated. The Kohn family's journey continues, from Russia to Central Asia and across the Caspian Sea to Persia. Now in a foreign land as impoverished refugees, their hometown occupied by the Nazis, and their relations, friends, and neighbors displaced across the world, can they discover generosity, hope, and even love in Tehran? From award-winning author Kim Dana Kupperman, this dramatic novel, inspired by a true story, occurs during one of the Holocaust's lesser-known episodes, the deportation into the Soviet Gulag of 1.5-2 million Polish citizens at the start of World War II.Afterword by Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz
作者簡介
Kim Dana Kupperman is the author of The Last of Her: A Forensic Memoir (2017) and the critically acclaimed essay collection "I Just Lately Started Buying Wings" (2010). She is the lead editor of YOU: An Anthology of Essays Dedicated to the Second Person (2013) and publisher of Essaying the Essay (2015). The founder of Welcome Table Press, she has been a writer, editor, and teacher for over thirty years. From 2004-2011, she was managing editor of the award-winning quarterly The Gettysburg Review, where she also developed and coordinated an annual writer's conference. She has taught in creative writing programs at Johns Hopkins, Fordham University, West Virginia Wesleyan, Fairfield University, and Montgomery College. She is currently working on a nonfiction sequel/prequel to Six Thousand Miles, about four Jewish siblings who lived through World War I and survived the Holocaust. She teaches private workshops in creative writing. For more information, please visit kimdanakupperman.com.AUTHOR HOME: Clarksville, MD
