I think I wanted to write about that colonel for yearsīefore I knew those forced laborers were called Ostarbeiter and that some of The Germans for forced labor-among the hundreds and hundreds of Soviet child refugees German roadside for hours, watching to see if he recognizes his son-taken by Grossman describes a Soviet colonel standing by a That stayed in my mind for nearly a decade after I first read it and now The Silent Unseen, and how did you create your characters Maria and Kostya?Ī: There’s a particular passage from A Writer at War
Q: You note that the inspiration for this novel cameįrom reading Vasily Grossman’s A Writer at War. She also has written the YA novel Traitor. Amanda McCrina is the author of the new young adult historical novel The Silent Unseen, set in Eastern Europe during World War II.
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