· Author Sandra Birdsell's tale reveals how an old woman now living in Canada recalls her dark past. Readers will revel in how Birdsell evokes a time and place that they rarely, if ever have even heard about: how a Mennonite community was devasted by the Russian www.doorway.rull herself was born and raised in Manitoba, the 5th of 10 children and her family's origins trace back to Russia/5(3). · Birdsell began writing in '82 at the age of The Russländer, her third novel, is a realistic, balanced portrayal of a group of people, written from the point of view of a religious sect, their beliefs and disbeliefs. It's not a Christian book, but the people are devout Christians/5(15). Joan Thomas: In May, Andris Taskans asked me if I would be interested in conducting an e-mail interview with Sandra Birdsell about her new novel The Russländer, a story set in the Mennonite communities in revolutionary Russia. One of my first impulses was to discuss the project with my friend Hazel Loewen, whose grandparents lived in Fürstenwerder in the Molochnaia Colony and fled to Canada in
The Russlander, Sandra Birdsell - S Sanctuary Line, Jane Urquhart - The Sealed Letter, Emma Donoghue - The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud - The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt - Solitaria, Genni Gunn - Something for Everyone, Lisa Moore - Songs for the Cold of Heart, Eric Dupont, translated by. by Sandra Birdsell. Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in , on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the. The Russlander, Sandra Birdsell. This book tells the story of a Russian Mennonite girl in the early 20th century. Katya is living through turbulent times, and there is tension growing between the wealthy Mennonite farmers and the Russian peasants. Currently, I'm about halfway through.
In lucid, spellbinding prose, Birdsell vividly evokes time and place, and the unease that existed in a county on the brink of revolutionary change. The Russländer is a powerful and moving story of. Birdsell began writing in '82 at the age of The Russländer, her third novel, is a realistic, balanced portrayal of a group of people, written from the point of view of a religious sect, their beliefs and disbeliefs. It's not a Christian book, but the people are devout Christians. Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba and, until recently, has spent most of her life in Winnipeg. Her first novel, The Missing Child (), won the W.H. Sm.
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