Description
Five hundred starving children. A journey lasting six weeks and four thousand versts. Kazan 1923: a devastating famine has broken out in the Volga region. Young Red Army soldier Dějev, a veteran of the civil war with a compassionate nature, is tasked with transporting five hundred children from an orphanage by train to 'well-fed' Samarkand to save them from certain death by starvation. However, everything necessary is lacking: supplies, clothing, fuel for the steam locomotive, and medicine. Along the way through a ravaged land still engulfed in civil war, Dějev is accompanied and overseen by the people's commissioner Bílá, a tough Bolshevik. These two opposites become indispensable to each other for a time. Implacable enemies lurk everywhere: refugees, bandits, Chekists, Cossacks. Dějev, who carries a dark secret himself, is unafraid of risk or danger and is determined to save the children's lives at any cost. The best-selling Russian author returns to another dark chapter of Soviet history.
Information
Author: Jachina Guzel
Language: Czech
Publication date: September 19, 2022
Manufacturer: Dr. Aleš Lederer
Genres: World fiction, Novels, Historical novels, Books, Fiction
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 456
ISBN/EAN: 9788072605279