Title: River of ice
Description: Sasha's father and older sister have already escaped Soviet Russia for Latvia, while Sasha and his mother remain behind, but their old friend Lazare, recently returned from years in a gulag, has a plan to get Sasha and his grandparents out.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Family life, Emigration and immigration
Places: Emigration and immigration, Russia
Time periods: 1917-1936