Tara Lynn Masih

Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to make the shtetele she lives in "free of Jews." Until the German occupation, Hanna spent her time exploring Kwasova with her younger siblings, admiring the drawings of the handsome Leon Stadnick, and helping her neighbor dye decorative pysanky eggs. But now she, Leon, and their families are forced to flee and hide in the forest outside their shtetele-and then in the dark caves beneath the rolling meadows, rumored to harbor evil spirits. Underground, they battle sickness and starvation, while the hunt continues above. When Hanna's father disappears, suddenly it's up to Hanna to find him-and to find a way to keep the rest of her family, and friends, alive. Sparse, resonant, and lyrical, weaving in tales of Jewish and Ukrainian folklore, My Real Name Is Hanna celebrates the sustaining bonds of family, the beauty of a helping hand, and the tenacity of the human spirit.

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Hanna Slivková má štrnásť rokov, keď Hitlerova armáda prekročí hranice Ukrajiny. Snahou nacistov je vyčistiť mesto, kde žije, od všetkých židov. Hanna so svojou rodinou a niekoľkými ďalšími rodinami musí opustiť rodný dom a skrývať sa v lese. No čoskoro už ani les nie je bezpečný. Ľudia, ktorí sa previnili len tým, že sa narodili ako židia, sú nútení utiecť a uchýliť sa do temných podzemných jaskýň, ktoré sú jediným bezpečným miestom pred ľudskými zvermi poľujúcimi hore. Pod zemou bojujú s chorobami a hladom a snaha zachovať si vieru a ľudskú dôstojnosť sa pomaly mení na boj o holé prežite. Román, ktorý oslavuje ľudskosť, silu rodiny a vytrvalosť ľudského ducha.

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In How We Disappear, Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone-runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih's characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying the burden of erasure by disappearing into or emerging from physical and emotional landscapes. Described as "masterful" and as "striking and resonant" (Publishers Weekly), Masih's fiction, crossing boundaries between historical and contemporary, sparks with awareness that nothing and no one is ever gone for good-and that the wilderness is never quite behind us.

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