La guardiana de recuerdos de Kyiv

Inspired by the story that the world forgot and the Russian government denies, Erin Litteken recounts the crisis of a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost four million lives. It is 1929 and Katya is sixteen years old, she is surrounded by her family and in love with her childhood friend. When Stalin's activists start arriving in Ukraine defending the greatness of collective farming, they are just a few. But soon the neighbors start to disappear; those who talk never come back. From then on, each new day becomes an uncertain future. Resistance comes at a price, and as desperation and hunger grip the countryside, survival seems more like a dream than a possibility... But even in the darkest of times, love prevails. Seventy years later, a young widow discovers her grandmother's diary, a find that will reveal the buried secrets of her family's troubled past, while also teaching her how to make peace with love after the loss of her life. her husband. This is a story about the resilience of the human spirit, the love that accompanies us in our darkest hours, and the true horror of the Holodomor, one of the great famines in European history.