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Publishers Weekly
About the Author:
Theodore Odrach wrote three novels, two collections of short stories, and two non-fiction works, all but one (Wave of Terror) published during his lifetime in Ukranian, the language of their original composition. He was born Theodore Sholomitsky in 1912 near Pinsk, Belarus, in the heart of the Pinsk Marshes. At the age of 9, he was caught stealing and was sent by the Polish authorities to reform school in Vilnius. He remained in Vilnius and, when he came of age, enrolled in Stephan Bathory University (now Vilnius University) where he studied philosophy and ancient history. When the Bolsheviks invaded Vilnius in 1939, Odrach returned to Pinsk, where he became a teacher and, later, the editor of an underground, anti-communist newspaper, The Informer. Denounced by the Soviets, he fled to Ukraine where he assumed a Ukranian identity, then found his way across the Carpathian mountains into Czechoslovakia. Eventually, he made his ....

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