Sunday, November 06, 2011

The sojourn



Author: Krivak, Andrew

Title: The sojourn

Published: New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2011

Description: 191 p. ; 19 cm.

Call Number: PS3561 R569 S65 2011

Summary: Uprooted from a nineteenth century mining town in Colorado by a shocking family tragedy, young Jozef Vinich returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd's life in rural Austria-Hungary. When war comes, Jozef is sent as a sharpshooter to the southern front, where he must survive the killing trenches, a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps, and capture by a victorious enemy

Subject(s):

  • World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
  • Soldiers -- Austria -- Fiction
  • Historical fiction
Review(s):
  • Chadwell, Faye A. "The Sojourn." Library Journal 136, no. 8 (May 2011): 76
  • "The Sojourn." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 6 (February 7, 2011): 33-34
Read: August 9, 2011