Histria Books is pleased to announce the release of the paperback edition of Walk the Earth as Brothers by Henry Rozycki. This historical novel is published by Histria Fiction an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding original works of fiction.
Two Jewish brothers plan futures full of achievement and maybe fame. But Warsaw in the summer of 1939 is no place for dreamers. Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners. He too finds someone, an exiled poet named Nadhya, until he must choose to stay with her or cross all of Russia to return to the future he’d envisioned. Walk the Earth as Brothers is the story of two pawns in a titanic world war, of bravery, random chance, kindness, betrayal, and love, and of what happens to the hopes and dreams of Ian and Daniel.
Henry Rozycki grew up in Montreal as the only child of Holocaust survivors. He began his studies at McGill University intending to become a writer but took a thirty-year detour into a career in medicine. Since returning to writing, his work has been published in literary journals, in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, and in newspapers, including the New York Times. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Mary, and together they have seven children, four grandchildren and two dogs.
Midwest Book Review says “While Walk the Earth as Brothers will prove especially attractive to readers of Jewish history and experience, it would be a shame to limit its audience to Jewish audiences alone. The cultural and political revelations … are worthy of book club and reading group debate … Libraries seeking novels about growth, family relationships, transformative life encounters, and the intersection of personal and political struggle will find Walk the Earth as Brothers invigorating and provocative.”
Kirkus Reviews raves “This is a dramatically lively novel as well as a historically rigorous one. A moving tale about the irrepressible tide of history and the fates of the individuals subjected to it..”
