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Alindarka's children : (things will be bad) / by Alhierd Bacharevič ; translated by Jim Dingley & Petra Reid.
Van Pelt Library PG2835.2.B284 D9413 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakharėvich, Alʹherd, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Dzetsi Alindarki. English
- Language:
- Belarusian
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child internment camp inmates--Fiction.
- Child internment camp inmates.
- Belarusians--Fiction.
- Belarusians.
- Belarusian language--Fiction.
- Belarusian language.
- Genocide--Fiction.
- Genocide.
- Escapes--Fiction.
- Escapes.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Lothian edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Scotland Street Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget Belarusian and to speak Russian, aided by the use of drugs as well as surgery on the larynx. They escape into the forest through a hole cut in the wire, but are pursued by the camp leaders and left to thrive for themselves in an adult Hansel and Gretel adventure--back cover.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Belarusian.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [302]-308).
- English Pen Award.
- ISBN:
- 9781910895405
- 1910895407
- OCLC:
- 1151988921
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