The Ship of Widows

ISBN-13: 9780810111448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 179 str.

I. Grekova; Cathy Porter; Helena Goscilo

Opis

-My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war.- Thus opens The Ship of Widows, the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the front, but still forced to fight as desperately to survive starvation, cold, and exhaustion, and to maintain homes and a country to which the soldiers can return. The Ship of Widows reveals an seldom-seen period of Russia's history and an understudied segment of its population---it's women.