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008			241002s2002 onc 000 1 eng d
020			_a0771014511
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aBirdsell, Sandra _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe Russländer _c/ Sandra Birdsell
264		1	_aToronto : _bEmblem Editions, _c2002
300			_a397 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_aKatherine (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 1910, 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 Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. In the aftermath of that violence, and in the difficult years that follow, Katya tries to come to terms with the terrible events that befell her and her family. 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 ordinary people who lived through extraordinary times.
650			_aMennonites _vFiction
650			_aOlder women _vFiction
650			_aWomen immigrants _vFiction
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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