Ivan and the Informer

Ivan and the Informer PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501341
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ivan is questioned by the police after a secret Bible study. Suddenly his Christian friends don't trust him but Ivan is not the informer. How can he find out who it is?

Ivan and the Informer

Ivan and the Informer PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501341
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ivan is questioned by the police after a secret Bible study. Suddenly his Christian friends don't trust him but Ivan is not the informer. How can he find out who it is?

Ivan and the Hidden Bible

Ivan and the Hidden Bible PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501334
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Part of the Ivan story-book series Exciting adventures For 9 - 13 year olds

Ivan and the Moscow Circus

Ivan and the Moscow Circus PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501358
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Read how a key, a car, a foreign journalist and a clown suit help Ivan in one of his greatest adventures against the powerful Secret Police.

Everything Flows

Everything Flows PDF Author: Vasily Grossman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here Everything Flows attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno.

Ivan and the Secret in the Suitcase

Ivan and the Secret in the Suitcase PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501365
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Ivan and Katya desperately try to outwit the Secret Police by smuggling much needed warm clothes and Bibles home from a holiday in Hungary.

Ivan and the Daring Escape

Ivan and the Daring Escape PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN: 9781845501327
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Moscow Secret police have imprisoned Ivan's best friend, Pyotr, in a children's home. God uses Ivan's football skills to help him and his friends get the better of Moscow Secret police.

My Crazy Century

My Crazy Century PDF Author: Ivan Klíma
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621

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An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author “of enormous power and originality” explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes (The New York Times Book Review). In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of them survived. But they returned home to a city that was falling into the grip of another totalitarian ideology: Communism. Along this harrowing journey, Klíma discovered his love of literature and matured as a writer. But as the regime further encroached on daily life, arresting his father and censoring his work, Klíma recognized the party for what it was: a deplorable, colossal lie. The true nature of oppression became clear to him and many of his peers, among them Josef Škvorecký, Milan Kundera, and Václav Havel. From the brief hope of freedom during the Prague Spring of 1968 to Charter 77 and the eventual collapse of the regime in 1989’s Velvet Revolution, Klíma’s revelatory account provides a profoundly rich personal and national history. Klima’s memoir provides “a sweeping, revealing look at one man’s personal struggle as writer and individual, set against the backdrop of political turmoil” (Booklist) and a “searching exploration of a warped era . . . rich in irony—and dogged hope.” (Publishers Weekly).

Forever Flowing

Forever Flowing PDF Author: Vasiliĭ Grossman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810115033
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to familiar places and persons in Moscow and Leningrad, the hero settles in a southern provincial town where he briefly establishes a new life with a war widow. Ivan Grigoryevich eventually returns to his boyhood home on the Black Sea, where he is finally able to come to terms with the inhumanity of the new Russian regime.

Ivan and the Informer

Ivan and the Informer PDF Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112

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No Saints or Angels

No Saints or Angels PDF Author: Ivan Klíma
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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A novel of one desperate woman’s hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” (The Boston Globe). Divorced, approaching fifty, and mother to a rebellious fifteen-year-old, Kristyna is beginning to feel the strain of her bleak existence—until she finds a new sense of joy when she begins a love affair with a man fifteen years her junior But her escape into romance is far from complete. She worries about her daughter Jana, who has been cutting school, and may be using heroin—the latest plague on the city. And Kristyna’s mother has forced her to accept the personal papers of her dead father, a tyrant whose Stalinist ideals she despised. At a crossroads in her life, she must find a way to put the past behind her and deal with the challenges of the present in a Czechoslovakia that is still trying to overcome years of communist oppression. In this Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima “unflinchingly presents the problems facing modern Prague and civilization in general . . . [and] fills it with mercy” (San Francisco Chronicle).