The Silence of Trees
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781927472033
Publish date: March 29th 2012
Publisher: Iambik
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Magical Realism,
Ukraine
Why did I read it? It was offered at a reduced price on the Goodreads Audiobook group, and it sounded interesting. What's it about? The book centres around the stories of Nadya, a Ukrainian mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, living in Chicago, who while observing the daily, religious and s...
This book is filled with a wonderful female presence. There are intricately woven folk tales, mythologies, and stories from the Ukraine. That said, I wish that the overall narrative had been more complete. I wanted to know the characters better. I wanted them to have the life that the old tales ...
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