Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village. After the war, at fourteen, he begins to run messages and guns for the anti-Stalin diehards still hiding in the woods. At seventeen he’s leading a double life, falling in love with a village girl, and dreaming about marriage and a job, while spying on NKVD agents at night. But someone betrays the partisans: their camp is destroyed; Tadek is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence.
- ISBN10 1936970392
- ISBN13 9781936970391
- Publish Date 8 March 2016
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 590
- Language English