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July 23, 2012
Finished in an hour! In spite of the somewhat disjointed storytelling, I was unable to put it down. Georgy Slesarev's life remains a beautiful WITNESS to the power of God!
July 20, 2024
It's brief and one of the better spiritual biographies I have read recently, largely because of its brevity. Ron Owens confines himself to a succinct narration of the events of Slesarev's arrest, imprisonment, and martyrdom, with his commentary on the events and the context surrounding them included in separate Interludes between each chapter. This makes it easy to determine what content is Owens' own meditations and what is actually known about Slesarev's life. It works best when used as brief daily readings, rather than read in one sitting.
The narration has a highly personal feel because much of the heart of the book came from interviews with Slesarev's daughter and from the author's own experiences living in the last years of the Soviet Union. Slesarev's witness is the centerpiece of the book and it is a powerful one. It renewed and refreshed my own spiritual endurance, particularly Owens' meditation on enduring trials through prayer in Interlude 12.
Recommended for: Christians, readers interested in the Soviet gulag/siblag system.
The narration has a highly personal feel because much of the heart of the book came from interviews with Slesarev's daughter and from the author's own experiences living in the last years of the Soviet Union. Slesarev's witness is the centerpiece of the book and it is a powerful one. It renewed and refreshed my own spiritual endurance, particularly Owens' meditation on enduring trials through prayer in Interlude 12.
Recommended for: Christians, readers interested in the Soviet gulag/siblag system.
June 6, 2012
This short biography was a gift from some friends who know that I enjoy both music and inspirational life stories. The book seems to be written on a fairly young level and sometimes seems disjointed. No doubt it’s hard to collect and organize information for someone who became a captive in the concentration camps of Communist Russia, but the insertion of chapter “interludes” to explain certain historical elements could have been woven into the storyline in a more artful manner. Nevertheless, I did enjoy reading and learning about the life of this prominent musician and was inspired by his perspective that even the darkest situations in life can be embraced as part of God’s calling.
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