The Sojourn - Paperback

by Andrew Krivak (Author)

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER

A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War I

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. When war 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.

Strikingly contemporary though replete with evocative historical detail, The Sojourn is the freestanding, first novel of Andrew Krivak's award-winning Dardan Trilogy, which concludes with Like the Appearance of Horses. Inspired by the author's family history, 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.

Author Biography

Andrew
Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear, a
Mountain Book Competition winner and NEA Big Read selection; 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. He is also
the author of the poetry collection Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves
and the memoir A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life,
as well as the editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to
Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, which received the Louis L. Martz
Prize. Krivak lives with his wife and three children in Somerville,
Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.