A Stolen Youth, a Stolen Homeland by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė

A Stolen Youth, a Stolen Homeland

Dalia Grinkevičiūtė

178 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Description

These memoirs were written by a twenty-three-year-old girl, in Lithuanian, on small sheets of paper. They were then packed into a glass jar and buried under a bed of peonies. The sheets of paper later had to be restored in order to make it possibl...

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Moods

dark 88%
sad 77%
challenging 55%
emotional 44%
informative 44%
inspiring 22%
reflective 22%
hopeful 11%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 22%
fast 11%

Average rating

4.12

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