Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780816675685 |
| ISBN10: | 0816675686 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 248 pages |
| Size: | 216x140x18 mm |
| Weight: | 666 g |
| Language: | English |
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Category:
The Darkest Evening
Series:
A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book;
90;
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Date of Publication: 7 February 2011
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Short description:
An adventurous tale of one Finnish American family?s encounter with the ?Red broom?.
Long description:
Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin’s secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border.
In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in Northwestern Russia, hoping to leave the Depression behind and to establish a workers’ paradise. Based on these true events, The Darkest Evening chronicles the story of Jake Maki, whose father, caught up in the socialist fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota, moves their family to the Soviet Union.
Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin’s secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border.
"Taking a little-known historical event for its context, Durbin’s historical fiction is every bit as exciting as the best adventure tale." —Kirkus Reviews
