Wave of terror
By: Theodore Odrach ; translated from Ukrainian by Erma Odrach ; introduction by T.F. Rigelhof.
Contributors: Odrach, Erma.
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780897335621
Subjects: Political violence -- Belarus -- Fiction; School principals -- Belarus -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Belarus -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Voshchad.
Description: This remarkable novel, hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years, begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become headmaster of School Number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his eyes we witness the tragedy of Stalinist domination, where people are randomly deported to labor camps or tortured in Zovty Kazarny prison in the center of Pinsk. Ivan struggles to make sense of this new world, learning the politics of survival in the emerging Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and trying to sort out his personal life. His passion for Marusia, a green-eyed, unpredictable young woman, is a theme throughout the book.
Notes: "An Anita Miller book."

Translated from the Ukrainian.