THE SOJOURN – Romance by Andrew Krivak

He is an American novelist, and his debut novel The Sojourn (inspired by Krivak’s own family history, particularly the experiences of his grandparents and their contemporaries), was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Andrew Krivak is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis. He have wanted to write for some time about the subject of his grandfather, and what it must have been like for him and my grandmother to grow up in what they used to call “their old country.” He tried to capture in his novel what he could only imagine from those days, listening to my grandmother tell of a world, in her broken English, that was an unforgiving and often brutal way of life.

A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author’s own family history, this novel evokes a time when peoples fought on the same side while divided by language, in the most brutal war to date. Reading The Sojourn, https://www.amazon.com/Sojourn-Andrew-Krivak/dp/1934137340/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 you can know the story of Jozef, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy. This novel it is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America.