Olga Gromova's book "Sugar Child" was written by her from the words of Stella Nudolskaya, whose childhood was in the late 30s - early 40s in the Soviet Union. This is a very personal and soul-stirring story about how five-year-old Elya, happily growing up in a loving family, suddenly turns out to be the daughter of an "enemy of the people" and finds herself in a terrible, incomprehensible world: after the arrest of her father, they are sent with their mother to a camp in Kyrgyzstan as CHSIR (family members of a traitor to the Motherland) and SOE (socially dangerous elements). But despite all the trials, hunger and illnesses that they have to endure, Elya and her mother do not lose heart: they read poetry, sing songs, joke, really care about each other. "Sugar Child" is in many ways a "novel of education", a story about love, and also about what dignity is and what freedom is. Eli's mother says most precisely about freedom: "Slavery is a state of mind. A free person cannot be made a slave."
Author: Olga Gromova
Illustrations: Maria Pasternak
Pages: 160 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 218x148x12 mm
