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IT WAS IN HIS BLOOD, in his mother's milk-the history of his people and the peasant's love for the deep, rich earth in all its moods and seasons. Nothing could tear these out of Piotr's heart.
But in 1905 a wave of violent change rolled over southern Russia, hinting at the cataclysm to come. Piotr's people stood directly in its path-religious dissenters in a time of orthodoxy, pacifists in a time of war. A chain of terrifying events turned Piotr into an unwilling pilgrim, fleeing for his life into the mountains, and then to a ship heading for the United States. With tragedy closing in on Piotr's family, a girl from his village took his agony into her own soul. And for Piotr, the journey to a place of refuge became inward as well as outward as he sought the answer to his heart's restless yearning.
ISBN:9780891077435
