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20 lut 2022 · This is an overly-long novel about Peter Enns, a man with a Russian Mennonite background who lived through the Russian Revolution, the Stalinist 30s, and briefly served with the Waffen SS after the Germans invaded Russia during World War II. We also learn the impact of these events on his family.
The speaker in this novel, we learn, is Peter Enns, born and raised in a Mennonite village in Ukraine—at that time, part of Russia—who is caught up in the contradicting fates of Soviet, then German, rule. Both nations and their ideologies promise liberation but eventually deliver only suffering.
E.J. Wiens describes some of the oral sources who shaped the characters and events in the novel. He reads two selections from To Antoine, from the early childhood of Peter Enns, the narrator,...
20 paź 2022 · To Antoine is a powerful novel that digs deeply into the lives of Mennonite families and their friends over a 60-year period, from their struggles for survival in Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany to their creation of new identities in South America and Canada.
20 paź 2022 · To Antoine, visceral and cerebral at once, is a quest for knowledge and forgiveness. It is a vivid portrait of bit players in the chaos of twentieth-century mayhem: of pragmatism and idealism; of loyalties and betrayals; of opportunism and deceit, complicity and revenge.
To Antoine is a powerful novel that digs deeply into the lives of Mennonite families and their friends over a 60-year period, from their struggles for survival in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany to their creation of new identities in South America and Canada.
Analysis. The narrator comes home from school on Monday afternoon and sees his aunt sitting in his kitchen with Miss Emma, the last person he wants to see. He retires to his bedroom without either of them seeing him, and tries to think of a way to greet Miss Emma quickly and then leave.
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