Retreat by John Guzlowski
Magda was a pretty young war widow on her lunch break. Hans was a soldier on furlough, a Bavarian farm boy Magda found wandering lost in Berlin. After two weeks together, she sent him on his way--back to the nightmare of the Eastern Front.Nine months later, Magda is trying to survive as her city is bombed to rubble, while Hans is somewhere in the Ukraine, slogging through snow and mud to find his way back to her, struggling to maintain his humanity despite the horrors he has survived and the brutality he has witnessed--and perpetrated.Retreat is a story of the terrible costs of war, of love amid crushing defeat, of complicity--and redemption.After World War II, John Guzlowski was born in a refugee camp in Germany and immigrated to America with his family as a Displaced Person in 1951. During WWII, his parents were Polish slave workers in Nazi Germany. He encountered hardware store clerks with Holocaust tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still lamented their lost horses, and ladies who had trekked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Soviets while growing up in Murdertown, Chicago's rough immigrant communities around Humboldt Park. Guzlowski remembers and appreciates the experiences and final resilience of these mute survivors in much of his work. Guzlowski is a well-known poet, as well as a respected teacher, literary critic, and fiction and nonfiction author.
Echoes of Tattered Tongues, his most recent poetry collection, awarded the 2017 Montaigne Medal of the Eric Hoffer Awards as one of the year's most thought-provoking books. Guzlowski holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as an MA and PhD in English from Purdue University. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia, and is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Eastern Illinois University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948403238 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948403234 |
| Title | Retreat |
| Author | John Guzlowski |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kasva Press |
| Year published | 2021-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 297 |
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