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Catching up on my recently read posts! I am fortunate enough to have a used bookstore near me that often carries Europa novels - and my daughter and I trekked there on Easter Sunday. I had long been wanting to read this and I ripped through it in a day. It is a story about the brutality of Russia during the 20th century and the horrors inflicted on its own citizens. It is also a story about memory and perseverance and connection. #europacollective

This novel starts out with a man moving home to Minsk (Belarus) and meets his elderly neighbor, who slowly tells him her story of living through the 1930s through the Soviet era in Russia. The author is Belarusian who writes in Russian.

I was initially worried by the translator note because they had to juggle and translate many formats and fonts but I felt the reading experience was smooth, and I liked how the pieces broke up the narrative.