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