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Sunflowers Under Fire
Sunflowers Under Fire: Lukia's Family Saga Series | Diana Stevan
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A Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by the Writers Union of Canada.
In this family saga set in Russia, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war. During WWI, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar’s army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter’s forbidden love.
Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Ultimately, it's a story about a simple woman who becomes a courageous and inspirational heroine. Based on the true stories of her grandmother’s ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.
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JenniferdeBie
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Beautiful and harrowing, Sunflowers Under Fire is a novel about loss, love, and a mother‘s resolve to carry on in the face of unimaginable odds. It is stunning work from a master storyteller, and a novel I look forward to returning to again and again.