Hello Exile: The True Story of One Womans Struggle Against All Odds
by Lilian Gafni
Category: Fiction

Klara's dream of emigrating from the Soviet Union is crushed when she is sentenced to slave labor camp in Siberia. During her exile she struggles against the loneliness and separation from Grigory, the man she loves. Faced with backbreaking labor, grueling living conditions, and housed with convicts who threaten to rape her, she despairs of coming out alive when an unexpected event changes the course of her life. Will this woman survive the harsh Siberian wilderness to be reunited with Grigory back in Moscow?