{"product_id":"woman-in-exile-my-life-in-kazakhstan-9781462003716","title":"Woman in Exile: My Life in Kazakhstan","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuliana Starosolska was taken by the Stalinists from her parents' home in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and deported in a sealed boxcar to a distant and primitive outpost in Siberian Kazakhstan. In \u003ci\u003eWoman in Exile, \u003c\/i\u003e she records her ordeals in a series of vignettes that capture the horrific, the humane, and even the occasionally humorous aspects of her experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHer father was arrested by the Stalinists and sent to a forced labor camp deep in Russian Siberia, where he died less than two years later. In the spring of 1940, the rest of his family, who had remained behind in Ukraine-Juliana; her frail mother, Daria; and her brother, Ihor-were forcibly deported by the Soviet government. They were forced to live and work under the most brutally primitive and backbreaking conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her mother and the reassignment of her brother to a different part of Kazakhstan, Juliana found herself alone. When World War II ended, as a former Polish citizen, Juliana was allowed to leave Kazakhstan for Poland in 1946. She immigrated to the United States in 1967, where she resumed her journalistic and literary career. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow she tells the story of those difficult years-of her time as a \u003ci\u003eWoman in Exile.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781462003716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Juliana Starosolska, Uleiiana Leiiubovych","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41489767301301,"sku":"9781462003716","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d8123390-a938-4bce-bab5-5bf6da8070ac.jpg?v=1640914825","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/woman-in-exile-my-life-in-kazakhstan-9781462003716","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}