| Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer Contributor(s): Makine, Andreď (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611456924 ISBN-13: 9781611456929 Publisher: Arcade Publishing OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012025519 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.45 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route? This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young pioneers. Inseparable, the two men have been through the grueling war against the Germans, with all its horror and senseless carnage. Yakov--or Yasha, as he was known--emerged physically intact but scarred forever from the moment he had been lifted out of a mountain of frozen bodies at a camp in liberated Poland." Pyotr, a skilled sniper who operated behind the German lines, lost both his legs, not at the hands of the Germans, but as a result of an artillery mistake by his own forces. Together, in these postwar, Cold War years, the two families try to piece together their shattered lives. |