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The singing forest, Judith McCormack

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The singing forest, Judith McCormack

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

The singing forest

Medium

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Responsibility statement

Judith McCormack

Summary

In attempting to bring a suspected war criminal to justice, a lawyer wrestles with power, accountability, and her Jewish identity. In a quiet forest in Belarus, two boys stumble across a long-kept secret: the mass grave where Stalin's police secretly murdered thousands in the 1930s. The results of the subsequent investigation have far-reaching effects, and across the Atlantic in Toronto, Leah Jarvis, a lively, curious young lawyer, finds herself tasked with an impossible case: the deportation of elderly Stefan Drozd, who fled his crimes in Kurapaty for a new identity in Canada. Leah is convinced of Drozd's guilt, but she needs hard facts. She travels to Belarus in search of witnesses only to find herself asking increasingly complex questions. What is the relationship between chance, inheritance, and justice? Between her own history-her mother's death, her father's absence, the shadows of her Jewish heritage-and the challenges that now confront her? Beautiful and wrenching by turns, The Singing Forest is a profound investigation of truth and memory-and the moving story of one man's past and one woman's determination to reckon with it

Target audience

adult

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