Four teens flee into Lithuanian woods during the 1941 Nazi invasion, surviving with uncanny crows in a bleak speculative WWII tale.
No reviews yet
Four teens flee into Lithuanian woods during the 1941 Nazi invasion, surviving with uncanny crows in a bleak speculative WWII tale.
Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivisation. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three are caught up in the onslaught. Along with Innokentiy, an abandoned boy who cannot speak, they are driven into the...
will contain mild spoilers
Innuendo, nudity, and sexual harassment mentions; no explicit sex scenes
Battle scenes, corpses, blood and gore, assault; pervasive wartime brutality
Sparse mild swearing; roughly seven instances and no f-words
Brief mentions of alcohol
No evidence found in available sources
Jewish protagonist and shtetl setting; faith not a central focus
Intelligent crows with a mysterious secret; central speculative element
No evidence found in available sources
Nazi and Soviet occupation, partisans, injustice, and wartime complicity
No evidence found in available sources
Child wartime suffering; assault, implied sexual assault, civilian cruelty
No information found