EAN: 9781399805186

THE SNOW HARE - PAULA LICHTAROWICZ KARTONIERT (TB)

Lena knows she hasn't got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain  she
relives her life. Growing up in a small town in Poland  she was an earnest young girl
determined to become a doctor who found her dreams put on hold as she became the reluctant wife
of an army officer and then again by becoming a mother  in which she finds a fierce and
surprising joy. As war approaches  she returns home. But when Russia invades her middle-class
family are deemed Enemies of the State and sent to the work camp in Siberia. It is in the
endless forest  where  despite the bitter cold  the biting hunger and the back-breaking work 
Lena learns that it is possible to fall in love at the edge of the world and the edge of life.
When her lover  Grigori  falls ill she takes the decision to use the precious antibiotics she
was given in Poland  to save him. It means that when her daughter becomes sick  she is unable
to save her. It's a decision that will continue to haunt her after the war  even as she builds
a tentative new life  first in Wales  then England. Exploring marriage  motherhood  and our
incredible capacity for cultivating hope in the darkest times  The Snow Hare is the
unforgettable story of a woman who dares to love and to dream in the face of impossible odds 
and of the peace we each must make with our choices  even long after the years have gone by.

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