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Anna is based on a true story of a Latvian refugee who experienced both the Soviet and Nazi occupation of her country before fleeing to Canada. It offers a different perception of world war 2 as seen from an Eastern European viewpoint. A country whre the inhabitants viewed the invading Gernams as deliverers from harsh Soviet rule. It is a story of courage and determination of a young woman whose life and family are torn apart by these brutal cross-currents fo history, clingign to a sometimes tenious dream of finding her way to the golden land of Canada
Anna Her Odyssey to Freedom edition by Eric Brown Dr Anna Rudovics Literature Fiction eBooks
Anna is a poignant tale of a young Latvian who is forced into a cat-and-mouse game with both the Soviet and the Nazi conquerors of Latvia in the 1930s and 1940s. While her focus is on survival, she never loses her humanity and her will to find both the man she loves and her promised land.I will get the negative over with first, because I really liked this book and would generally recommend it.
I did not read this as a Kindle edition but as a paperback, so I am not sure if this has been corrected, but my main complaint with this book is that it suffers from very poor editing. I am willing to overlook minor and occasional errors, but the errors were rampant and marred the text. I liked the content so much that I would really like to read some of the author's other books, but I am apprehensive if it means slogging through so many missing quotation marks, incorrect words, incomplete sentences, and spelling errors. I really hope that this has been looked at and revised for the Kindle edition.
One thing that some readers will like and others won't is the breathless pace of the narrative - until the end, when life slows down a bit for Anna, the narrative never pauses to either enjoy or reinforce a moment. While this is generally fitting and a good thing (the book does not waste any time getting to the exciting bits), sometimes I felt a bit disconnected from the narrative because events were blistering by so quickly.
That said, on to the good. What a great choice of subject matter. A World War II buff and an Albertan with Baltic friends (albeit from Lithuania), I learned a great deal from this book. Of course, not being an expert, I cannot attest to the accuracy of the research, but it all felt authentic (although perhaps once or twice it played into American stereotypes). The smattering of foreign phrases and the different cultural perspectives gave colour and dimension without being overwhelming for the reader. I really felt the fear and oppression of occupied Latvia, and the relative calm and yet uncertainty and discomfort of the immigrant experience in Canada.
The characters were also, in my opinion, very well done. Anna is a very likeable and relatable heroine. Mr. Brown does an excellent job with making her brave, strong, determined, and compassionate while maintaining some vulnerability and fallibility in her character. He also refreshingly does not fall into any of the traps that male writers often regrettably fall into when writing female characters - Anna is not objectified. Nor are the other women in the story, for that matter. Liesma has suffered even worse than Anna and is clearly suffering from post-traumatic stress, but she retains her agency. Mandy is active and instrumental in helping Anna become established in her new country. I wish this were the norm, but sadly this author stands out for this.
The male characters are also well-written and three-dimensional, with the exception of Valdis when he descends into a bit of a stereotype for a few chapters (he pulls out of it eventually). Anna's love interests are believable and her "relationship" with Kurt the most interesting - probably common to women in occupied territories, the forced friendship of necessity with the enemy, with the threat of violence lurking in the background.
It was also a very nice twist that Anna's experience under Soviet rule was so different than her experience under Nazi rule, although both were terrible in their own right, and were more or less terrible for certain friends and family. Anna's tale really helps those of us who were lucky enough to be born in this country to understand why others will go to such lengths to get here.
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Anna Her Odyssey to Freedom edition by Eric Brown Dr Anna Rudovics Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Anna is a poignant tale of a young Latvian who is forced into a cat-and-mouse game with both the Soviet and the Nazi conquerors of Latvia in the 1930s and 1940s. While her focus is on survival, she never loses her humanity and her will to find both the man she loves and her promised land.
I will get the negative over with first, because I really liked this book and would generally recommend it.
I did not read this as a edition but as a paperback, so I am not sure if this has been corrected, but my main complaint with this book is that it suffers from very poor editing. I am willing to overlook minor and occasional errors, but the errors were rampant and marred the text. I liked the content so much that I would really like to read some of the author's other books, but I am apprehensive if it means slogging through so many missing quotation marks, incorrect words, incomplete sentences, and spelling errors. I really hope that this has been looked at and revised for the edition.
One thing that some readers will like and others won't is the breathless pace of the narrative - until the end, when life slows down a bit for Anna, the narrative never pauses to either enjoy or reinforce a moment. While this is generally fitting and a good thing (the book does not waste any time getting to the exciting bits), sometimes I felt a bit disconnected from the narrative because events were blistering by so quickly.
That said, on to the good. What a great choice of subject matter. A World War II buff and an Albertan with Baltic friends (albeit from Lithuania), I learned a great deal from this book. Of course, not being an expert, I cannot attest to the accuracy of the research, but it all felt authentic (although perhaps once or twice it played into American stereotypes). The smattering of foreign phrases and the different cultural perspectives gave colour and dimension without being overwhelming for the reader. I really felt the fear and oppression of occupied Latvia, and the relative calm and yet uncertainty and discomfort of the immigrant experience in Canada.
The characters were also, in my opinion, very well done. Anna is a very likeable and relatable heroine. Mr. Brown does an excellent job with making her brave, strong, determined, and compassionate while maintaining some vulnerability and fallibility in her character. He also refreshingly does not fall into any of the traps that male writers often regrettably fall into when writing female characters - Anna is not objectified. Nor are the other women in the story, for that matter. Liesma has suffered even worse than Anna and is clearly suffering from post-traumatic stress, but she retains her agency. Mandy is active and instrumental in helping Anna become established in her new country. I wish this were the norm, but sadly this author stands out for this.
The male characters are also well-written and three-dimensional, with the exception of Valdis when he descends into a bit of a stereotype for a few chapters (he pulls out of it eventually). Anna's love interests are believable and her "relationship" with Kurt the most interesting - probably common to women in occupied territories, the forced friendship of necessity with the enemy, with the threat of violence lurking in the background.
It was also a very nice twist that Anna's experience under Soviet rule was so different than her experience under Nazi rule, although both were terrible in their own right, and were more or less terrible for certain friends and family. Anna's tale really helps those of us who were lucky enough to be born in this country to understand why others will go to such lengths to get here.
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