Lit in Translation

Too Great a Sky

Capătul drumului

Liliana Corobca (born 1975)

Translated by Monica Cure

English editions

In English

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Ana Blajinschi is close to ninety when her relatives decide she should go into a care home, and they send a young great-granddaughter to talk her round. Ana, however, uses the visit to speak about what happened to her as a young woman: the deportation to Kazakhstan, packed with thousands of others into freight cars, a journey on which she thought she had met the man she would love, and the decade of hunger and war that followed, which she endured through prayer and stubborn hope. Partly based on real testimony, the novel travels deep into darkness.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
344 pages in the original
Genres
Historical, War (assigned by AI)
Set in
Moldova, Kazakhstan
First published
2018 by Polirom
Author's age
43 when first published
ISBN

9789734672127 (original)

9781911710134 (Seven Stories Press, United Kingdom)

9781644214176 (Seven Stories Press, United States)