Publishers Weekly — "Odrach's delightfully sardonic novel about Stalinist occupation… is rich with history, horror and comedy." This panoramic novel hidden from the English-speaking world for more than 50 years begins with the Red Army invasion of Belarus in 1939. Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his eyes we witness...