Mailbox Monday: 'Wave of Terror'

Theodore Odrach emigrated to Canada in 1953 where he lived in a Ukrainian neighborhood in Toronto while working in a print shop during the day and writing novels and short stories in his native language in the evenings. He died of a stroke in 1964; his novel "Wave of Terror" that begins with the Red Army's 1939 invasion of Belarus was published posthumously in Ukrainian in 1972.

With his daughter Erma's translation, Odrach's novel based on his first-hand knowledge of Stalin's policy of torture...