Underground by Antanas Sileika
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Overview: Underground might be described as a historical love story, but it is also a political military/spy thriller. Sileika writes with a spare style that suits the action sequences as well as the rare moments of tenderness or humour. Entertaining and sometimes shocking, the book describes a little-known period of European history that has been kept underground far too long. (Vancouver Sun)
…full of poetry and wisdom gorgeously expressed… a brilliant, highly accessible military history, one that remains largely repressed–underground– in the East and in the West. (Globe and Mail)
It’s a curious novel telling an unusual story…One of the best descriptions of life on the run by dedicated partisans, it’s brutal in places, heroic in others, and always rewarding. (Owen Sound Sun Times)
In an uncompromising novel, post-war Lithuania receives its due. (Literary Review of Canada)
Sileika’s novel is a gripping tale…engag[ing] the reader to the last page. (National Post)
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war. Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement in mid- 1940s. After shooting up a room full of Soviet government workers during their engagement party, Lukas and Elena become folk heroes to their political cause, but are forced deep into hiding in order to escape punishment for their role in the massacre. When their secret bunker is discovered, Lukas is nearly captured. Believing his beloved Elena has been killed in the raid, Lukas is forced to flee the country and the increasingly hopeless resistance movement that he has defended over the years. Finding himself stranded in Paris, Lukas tries in vain to generate some political interest in the plight of his country. Settling quietly in Europe, Lukas falls in love again, remarries, and begins
Genre: Fiction/Historical
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