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Five Stalks of Grain
Hardcover
Series: Brave & Brilliant, Book 29
Publisher Price: $56.99
ISBN13: 9781773855622
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: Jan 15 2024
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.71
Height: 0.56 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras must leave their home on a desperate quest for survival.
Attempting to navigate a closed country, to stay together, and to stay alive, Nadia and Taras must face secret police, soldiers, and fellow citizens forced to abandon charity and sometimes even humanity in the face of impossible hunger. Unsure who to trust and unable to find refuge, they search for somewhere, anywhere, where they can be safe.
Historical fiction at its finest, Five Stalks of Grain is powerfully written and beautifully illustrated, drawing on Ukrainian artistic traditions to tell a story of loss, grief, and hardship with delicate strength. It is a record of a time of profound suffering and a reckoning with the human cost of a tragedy shaped by politics and policy.
This book is also available in Ukrainian as П'ять колосків -- Piat koloskiv.
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