Her novels shake, touch, and captivate millions: The new bestselling non-fiction novel by Hera Lind
In 1944, a nightmare begins for 16-year-old Lydia, a native of the Black Sea region of Germany. As the Red Army advances on her small village near Odessa in Ukraine, her family flees and even makes it to Germany! But they are rounded up and deported. Lydia, her mother and four siblings are taken to Siberia, where temperatures drop to minus 50 degrees Celsius. For twelve years of relentless hardship in a Gulag, she fights for survival – and becomes the mother of eight children, of whom six survive. When she is finally released from the camp, the Iron Curtain is in place. For another twelve years, she and her children drift through the Soviet Union, always with only one goal in mind: to reach West Germany at any cost, even if she has never been there. Germany is her home!
‘Harrowing to read, superbly written, Hera Lind brings war stories close to her readers.’ Recklinghäuser Zeitung about Time to forgive
