| The Darkest Evening Contributor(s): Durbin, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816675686 ISBN-13: 9780816675685 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010046713 |
| Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in Northwestern Russia, hoping to leave the Depression behind and to establish a workers' paradise. Based on these true events, The Darkest Evening chronicles the story of Jake Maki, whose father, caught up in the socialist fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota, moves their family to the Soviet Union. Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin's secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border. |