Book by Kath Jonathan
What an epic tale. It is an historical fiction, combining present and past. It is set in wartime Warsaw, 1939, as well as Toronto, 2010. I ordered it directly from the publisher. While it is an American publisher, they feature Canadian books on its .ca website.
I spend afternoons reading out back. Usually non-fiction, but this is an important topic. Especially with wars going on around the world. Humans have spent a lot of time fighting one another for land, power, and fuel sources. It was impressive seeing how resourceful people become when fighting oppressors.
There are many untold stories of women who fought along side the men, even in the patriarchal military setting.
From the publisher, Simon & Shuster:
An evocative work of historical fiction, examining the little-known story of Poland’s extraordinary WW ll resistance army and the contemporary lives of two artists, grandmother and granddaughter, inextricably linked by a wartime betrayal.
