![]() Yulia is quickly won over to the cause, even in the face of Soviet deceptions such as the plundering of the family’s harvest and livestock, and the deaths of several relatives. ![]() ![]() Stalinists, including foreign sympathizers, inventory the countryside’s residences, forcing farmers to give up their land and join collective kolkhozes. Compassionate 12-year-old Nyl narrates the harrowing story, which opens with the ethnically Ukrainian family-Nyl, his parents, and siblings Slavko, nine, and Yulia, 11-just managing to keep their farm going in February 1930. In a timely, hard-hitting novel, Forchuk ( Traitors Among Us) portrays the manufactured famine Holodomor (“murder by hunger”) that Stalinists inflicted on Soviet Ukrainian farmers in the early 1930s. ![]()
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