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It is 1950. World War II has ended. But in the tiny Baltic country of Lithuania, which has been occupied by the Soviet Union, the war after the war is still raging. It is an underground war, a war that is fought by the few surviving men left after massive deportations to Siberia, after five years of guerrilla warfare, after a third of the country has fled to the West. It is a war fought by women and children. Maria is 12. Her father is gone. Her mother is hiding a man who is dangerous to the Soviets under the floorboards of the little wooden house on the edge of the forest where they live. This is Maria's story. It is a coming of age story that spans almost half a century and two continents. It is a story of what happened to so many Baltic people when their countries became the front line for two of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators, Stalin and Hitler. This is a story of what it takes to survive in a time when hardly anyone survived. I first began writing THIS IS NOT MY SKY the night the United States invaded Iraq in March, 2003. As I was listening to news reports on National Public Radio, President George W. Bush made a statement that Operation Enduring Freedom would be over within weeks. I thought to myself then there was no way this invasion would be that quick and easy. The human cost would be very real. The people of Iraq and the coalition soldiers and their families would feel the effects of war trauma for generations. I knew this to be true because my father was a displaced person from Lithuania during World War II. I'd grown up in an emigre community of displaced persons. At the time we had no labels for our experience, but we now know that PTSD is passed down the generations. And so, I began writing THIS IS NOT MY SKY as my anti-war novel. I wanted to show through the story of one family how the trauma of war is passed down the generations, even when transplanted to another continent and another time. I wanted to tell this story from the perspective of the women who live out war in the home. As I wrote, I realized that this story is not just a story about how war destroys families, but that it is the story of the great enduring love of mothers and daughters and grandmothers. Love is the fabric that holds a family together through the onslaught of history... The novel follows the life of Maria from when she is a 12-year-old girl in postwar Lithuania to her life in America during the Cold War years, through to the eve of Lithuanian independence. The novel explores the linguistic and cultural divide that happens between generations when immigration tears people away from their native land. Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel - Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle Learn more The Sheltering Sky (1990) - IMDb The leading information resource for the entertainment industry Find industry contacts & talent representation Manage your photos credits & more EMILY BRONT'S POETRY - City University of New York Cold in the earth and the deep snow piled above thee! Far far removed cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot my Only Love to love thee LS2 PAC - Catalog Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password Remember Me That Sun in the Sky - AsianWiki Profile Drama: That Sun in the Sky Revised romanization: Jeo Haneule Taeyangi Hangul: Director: Kim Shin-Il Writer: Kim Ji-Ahn Lee Jin-Suk 4 Tips to Write a Novel That Will Be Adapted Into a Movie This guest post is by Monica Clark Monica is a lawyer finishing her first novel She was an editor at the Harvard Crimson and has been published by The Wall Street TV Novel That Sun in the Sky Korean Drama TV Novel That Sun in the Sky Korean Drama Synopsis Details Cast and other info of all Korean Drama TV Series Rights of Writers: Titles and the Law: Can I Call My Novel Titles and the Law: Can I Call My Novel "The Great Gatsby"? How Not to Write a Novel: 7 Things That Will Doom Your Novel There are a lot of ways not to do something Like the new boat owner a few years ago who was filling up his pleasure craft with fuel for that first time out Only he The Sheltering Sky Movie Review (1991) Roger Ebert In the aftermath of World War II three youngish Americans arrive in Tangier in search of new experiences They describe themselves as travelers not tourists They
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