A Sparrow In The Snow

Author: Sylva Darel
Binding: Hardback
Published: Souvenir Press, 1974

Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Dust jacket has some minor wear and a small tear on rear panel top edge, previous owner name inside, pages edges have foxing

A Sparrow in the Snow is the remarkable story of a young girl growing up in Siberian exile during the last years of Stalin. Much of the book was written in the form of a diary when she was thirteen, and the freshness, and directness of her style, the courage and humour of the personality that comes through make it both a unique record of human survival through deprivation and terror and an absorbing and beautiful book.