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The Sojourn

por Andrew Krivak

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National Book Award Finalist
Chautauqua Prize Winner
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner

"Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. Rather, it looks deeply into its characters' lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own." ??National Book Award judges' citation

The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, 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.

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 Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amid the unfolding tragedy in Europe.

Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.… (más)

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A perfect little novel, exhibit #99 that those 600 page behemoths are just wasting everyone's time.

This is the first in a trilogy (so far, I guess), I read the third one from Librarything Early Reviewers. The publisher enclosed this copy, and I went out and purchased the one between.

Multigenerational saga of men (mostly) in combat, shuttling across the Atlantic, emigrating to the US, then leaving in a hurry back to Austria.

I had folks around Pueblo in the 1890s, I wonder if they knew of the opening train accident, if it is based on an actual event? ( )
  kcshankd | Dec 2, 2023 |
This book is about WWI, from the perspective of a young Slavic, sharpshooter. It's a short, very well-written book. An interesting perspective on the war, but definitely sad and hard to read about so much senseless death. ( )
  banjo123 | Feb 17, 2023 |
Jozef Ondrej Vinich, born in Pueblo, Colorado in in 1899, is taken by his father to Austria-Hungary as an infant after his mother dies. His shepherd father teaches Jozef to hunt, stalk, observe and shoot. He and Klee, another boy basically raised by his father as brothers, join the Army during WWI and are trained as snipers. Klee is killed and the remainder of Jozef’s war is pure hardship. He is captured and interned in Sicily as a prisoner of war.

After he’s released Jozef returns home after a long and arduous trip. His father has died but has stashed some gold in a cave for him. Jozef returns to America, wondering “what would await me there in the country in which I was born but had never belonged.”

This is a beautifully written book with the feel of one that will continue to grow in repute. ( )
1 vota Hagelstein | Jun 2, 2021 |
One of the reviewers on the book jacket described The Sojourn as a “a war story, a love story, and coming of age novel all rolled into one.” I can’t improve on that.

The narrator, Josef Vinich endures extreme hardships from weather, terrain, the enemy, and his superiors that are conveyed powerfully with stark, clean writing. This is an incredible debut novel.
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  LenJoy | Mar 14, 2021 |
This novel is so understated that it could easily be overlooked. The fascinating part of it for me is the brilliant use of language to perfectly reflect the persona and experience of the protagonist, Jozef. What the heck do I mean? Jozef moves from the United States to his parents' native Yugoslavia with his father after his mother dies tragically. Father and son are astute, powerfully strong, men of few words and who rarely express emotion openly. The language of the novel is stark and simple, except when intense emotion erupts at which point the prose reflects the feelings beautifully. I know, I know......was it a good story? Yes, very. There are several powerfully developed characters as well. Set during WWI, Jozef becomes a sniper along with his adopted brother, Zlee. You will have to read it to find out the rest!
  hemlokgang | Aug 28, 2019 |
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... Andrew Krivak, nominated for a National Book Award for The Sojourn, has created a gripping and harrowing war story that has the feel of a classic. Jozef evolves convincingly from an eager young soldier indifferent to the lives he takes, to a wreck of a man who fully understands all that has been lost in the endless fighting. Like all classic war stories, this one can't help but make you wonder about the futility of war and the devastation it leaves in its path...
añadido por Jcambridge | editarNPR, Lynn Neary (Jan 1, 2012)
 
“Charged with emotion and longing . . . this lean, resonant debut [is] an undeniably powerful accomplishment.”
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After a time, I asked, “What is left to be afraid of?’
And he said, “the possibility that a life itself may prove to be the most worthy struggle. Not the whole sweeping vale of tears that Rome and her priests want us to sacrifice ourselves to daily so that she lives in splendor, but one single moment in which we die so that someone else lives. That ls it, and it is fearful because it cannot be seen, planned, or even known. It is simply lived. If there be purpose, it happens of a moment within us, and lasts a lifetime without us, like water opening and closing in a wake.
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National Book Award Finalist
Chautauqua Prize Winner
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner

"Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. Rather, it looks deeply into its characters' lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own." ??National Book Award judges' citation

The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, 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.

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 Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amid the unfolding tragedy in Europe.

Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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