Readers will read as the characters experience love, loss, grief, hope and show strength.
It is also about family, love, duty and serving your country. He tells the story of a family that has fought in many wars and how it affects their lives. This sounds like a lot to fit into 278 pages, but Krivak does so beautifully and with skill.
Sam's son will be a Marine on his way to Iraq. Their son, Sam will fight in Vietnam and come home with addiction and scars. There he learns English and falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah. He is told that Jozeh saved him once and will do so again. Jozef saved Bexhet's life when he was an infant and delivered him to his grandfather. One day a young man, Bexhet Konar, arrives after his grandfather helped him escape fascist Hungary and traveled to America to find Jozef Vinich. Jozef Vinich settled in the small town of Darden, Pennsylvania after World War I. If you have not read a book by Andrew Krivak, you are missing out- BIG TIME! Like the Appearance of Horses is a gripping and masterfully told story of one family and their century of war. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.’Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,Īnd like war horses, so they run.’ - Joel 2:4 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.Īndrew 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. 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.Ī 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. 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.
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, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. "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.
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