STEPHANIE WILLIAMS

Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Death and retribution followed. Olga was forced to flee to China, rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more Olga would be forced to leave everything behind - first to escape Mao's Communists, and again when Japan invaded China during World War II. From the comfort of her family to the terror of revolution, war and exile, Olga's Story is the heartbreaking tale of the author's grandmother.

Reconstrucción de la increíble vida de la abuela de la autora, que a su vez es la síntesis de la historia del siglo XX. Nacida en 1990, en un pueblo de la estepa siberiana, Olga vio truncada su feliz infancia en el estallido de la Revolucion. A los nueve años tuvo que huir para salvar su vida y ahi comenzo una dura odisea que la conduciria hasta el norte de China, donde sobrevivio a la invasion japonesa. Un esplendido documento sobre la guerra y el exilio, y sobre el coraje de una mujer excepcional.