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Sliding on the Snow Stone

Andy Szpuk

Kindle Edition | Pages: 238 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 351 Users | 54 Reviews

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Title	:	Sliding on the Snow Stone
Author	:	Andy Szpuk
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 238 pages
Published	:	September 21st 2011 by Bandura Books
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. Ukraine

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It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it.

Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin’s Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine – millions of people starve to death. To free themselves from the daily terrors of Soviet rule, Stefan and his friends fight imaginary battles in nearby woods to defend their land. The games they play are their only escape.

‘Sliding on the Snow Stone’ is the true story of Stefan's extraordinary journey across a landscape of hunger, fear and devastating loss. With Europe on the brink of World War Two, Stefan and his family pray they'll survive in their uncertain world. They long to be free.

(In 1932-33, as part of their drive towards industrialisation, the Soviet Union demanded impossibly high requisitions of grain from rural areas in Ukraine. In a deliberate act of genocide, Ukrainian smallholdings were stripped of food, and the population began to perish, with some estimates as high as 10 million deaths, from starvation. In Ukraine, this atrocity became known as the Holodomor (death by hunger). The following years saw Soviet purges and terrors resulting in the elimination of academics and intellectuals, or of anyone who spoke out against Soviet rule. When World War Two arrived on Ukraine’s doorstep, many people viewed the Nazis as liberators – a view that was quickly proved wrong. ‘Sliding on the Snow Stone’ is Stefan’s personal account of a historical period drenched in the blood of a nation, and of his yearning for freedom).

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Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ukraine

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Ratings: 4.09 From 351 Users | 54 Reviews

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I was left with much to ponder after reading this, a harrowing but beautiful triumph of the human soul. Stefans love for Ukraine and family is his steady heart, as brutal forces attempt to wear down his body. At many times chilling, Sliding on the Snow Stone rings with the warm of familial love, and of love for ones country. I am so glad I read this book, albeit slowly due to the disturbing but honest scenes set during the 1930s-1940s. Highly recommended.



Pretty good, yet a little more lengthy than necessary . Memoir of a Ukrainian boy who's family was persecuted by Stalin and the Soviets then the Nazi's, forced to leave his mother behind, his brother was taken away and he watched his father die. He survived to tell the story at 86 years old.

What a beautiful story! This author's words transcend my puny attempt to review his book. I cried for the refugees of WWII who could not return home at war's end. I cried over the memory of my father who fought in the thick of WWII but would not speak of the horrors he saw. I cried for the people who had never known freedom from governmental tyranny. It is beyond my life experiences to understand how families could be scattered apart around the globe and have no way to find one another ever

Beautiful book! This author is a born writer. The story was extremely readable and at times was heartbreaking, but also enlightening. I love these types of stories like The Kite Runner which give you an insight into the lives and the cultures of other countries, and the turmoil they often have to go through. Stefan's story is one of tragedy, but the end of chapter 13 gave me chills. Finally some happiness. Will definitely be looking out for more books by Mr Szpuk :)

A story about Stefan, told in first person.,Growing up in a small village in the Ukraine during Soviet occupation and then living under the harsh rule of the Nazi occupation he had never not known both hunger and fear. At 15he and his father escaped to avoid being either forced to join the Army or be shot. This is the story of their their 2000 miles quest looking for freedom. We also see him as an old man with a wife, children, and grandchildren.Another bit if history during WWII and about some

The history is interesting, but I found myself feeling a large generational and cultural gap with the author. He describes things often in poetic prose, which is not a style of writing I enjoy. It's a finish-able book, but just barely.