|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
|
Product Description
Product Description
Anya's family emigrates from the Ukraine hoping for a fresh start and a new life in Canada. Soon after they cram into a tiny apartment in Montreal, WWI is declared. Because their district was annexed by Austria — now at war with the Commonwealth — many Ukrainians in Canada are declared “enemy aliens” and sent to internment camps. Anya and her family are shipped off to the Spirit Lake Camp, in the remote wilderness of Quebec. Though conditions are brutal, at least Anya is at a camp that houses entire families together, and even in this barbed-wire world, she is able to make new friends and bring some happiness to the people around her. Author Marsha Skrypuch, whose own grandfather was interned during WWI at a camp in Alberta, travelled to Spirit Lake during her research for the book. “When we got to the cemetery, I was overwhelmed with emotion. Imagine seeing a series of crosses, all grown over with brush and abandoned, and knowing that the real person you based a character on had a little sister buried there? That real little girl was Mary Manko. She was only six years old when she and her family were taken from their Montreal home and sent to Spirit Lake Internment Camp. Her two-year-old sister Carolka died at the camp. Mary Manko is in her nineties now and is the last known survivor of the Ukrainian internment operations.” explains Skrypuch
About the Author
Marsha Skrypuch has become the pre-eminent children's writer on Canadian-Ukrainian history. She has won numerous awards and nominations for her books. Including the CCBC's Our Choice Award, Saskatchewan's Snow Willow Award and the 2004 Rocky Mountain book Award for Hope's War. She was also nominated for the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize for her body of work and mentorship of other writers. Her most recent novels are Nobody's Child and Aram's Choice' and she has edited a new anthology of Ukrainian memoirs, Kobzar's Children.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Skrypuch Shines in Dear Canada Story!,
By Valerie Sherrard (Miramichi, New Brunswick Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 (Hardcover)
Marsha Skrypuch has written an absolutely lovely story in this, the newest volume of the Dear Canada series.
Prisoners in the Promised Land tells of one family's journey from their home in Austria-Hungary to a new life in the land of promise. Told through the eyes of young Anya Soloniuk, readers will find their hearts fully engaged as they read how Anya and her family's bright hopes are replaced by hardships and imprisonment. Skrypuch manages to maintain a tone that is neither self-pitying nor judgemental. Rather, she expertly sustains the innocent, gentle voice of Anya, who wonders why her family was encouraged to come to a country only to be placed in an internment camp, though they had done nothing wrong. Start to finish, I thoroughly enjoyed this book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful story,
By
This review is from: Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 (Hardcover)
Marsha Skrypuch breathes life into a little-known part of Canadian history. Young Anna's roller coaster of hope and despair in Canada's hinterland is haunting. Hard to put down.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Slice of History,
By
This review is from: Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 (Hardcover)
Marsha Skrypuch has done a very nice job of casting light on a relatively
unknown part of Canadian history. I like her writing style. She settled on one character Anya and built the story around her, her family, her neighbours, her schoolmates, the internment camp guards, the native people near the camp. Her device of getting access to newspapers was simple and effective. The book is aimed at teenaged girls, but should appeal to a much much wider audience. I am a sixty year old male and I enjoyed it very much. Great job.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
Most recent customer reviews |
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
