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4.5★s
It was 1941 and Estonia was in the grip of Russian rule – brutal, cruel and without heart, the Red Army killed, deported and demoralized each and every member of the community who wouldn’t be of any use to them. Kati and her parents were cautiously optimistic as their farm had been approved because of the produce the Russians would take to feed themselves. Kati was also keeping her beloved grandmother’s legacy of the weaving of fine lace shawls – the knitting circle was kept going under Kat ...more
It was 1941 and Estonia was in the grip of Russian rule – brutal, cruel and without heart, the Red Army killed, deported and demoralized each and every member of the community who wouldn’t be of any use to them. Kati and her parents were cautiously optimistic as their farm had been approved because of the produce the Russians would take to feed themselves. Kati was also keeping her beloved grandmother’s legacy of the weaving of fine lace shawls – the knitting circle was kept going under Kat ...more
A heart-wrenching novel of love, war and resistance set in Estonia in the 1940s, The Lace Weaver tells the story of two very different young women and their struggle to survive in a country caught between two of the greatest evils of the 20th century: Stalin’s Red Army and Hitler’s Third Reich.
The story begins in 1941, when Estonia is under Russian rule and suffering brutality, hunger and mass murders and deportations. Kati and her parents are doing the best they can by keeping their heads down ...more
The story begins in 1941, when Estonia is under Russian rule and suffering brutality, hunger and mass murders and deportations. Kati and her parents are doing the best they can by keeping their heads down ...more
4.5 stars
This is the story of two young women trying to survive Stalin’s brutal Red Army in Tartu, Estonia. Katarina is a country girl and a talented lace weaver, while Lydia is a privileged half Russian/half Estonian girl living in Moscow with her uncle. When Lydia witnesses her boyfriend being arrested in the street in front of her, she resolves to flee to her deceased mother’s homeland of Estonia and escape the clutches of her cruel uncle.
What Lydia discovers about her parentage in Estonia a ...more
This is the story of two young women trying to survive Stalin’s brutal Red Army in Tartu, Estonia. Katarina is a country girl and a talented lace weaver, while Lydia is a privileged half Russian/half Estonian girl living in Moscow with her uncle. When Lydia witnesses her boyfriend being arrested in the street in front of her, she resolves to flee to her deceased mother’s homeland of Estonia and escape the clutches of her cruel uncle.
What Lydia discovers about her parentage in Estonia a ...more
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