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Love Child is a war-time love story. The year is 1944. The Soviet Army liberates Vilnius, Lithuania, and there Lana meets Marek, a gregarious, charismatic, and fearless Soviet government official who is smuggling Jews to Palestine. Lana, a young courageous surgeon, is saving lives at a military hospital that has followed the Soviet Army since the war broke out. Marek and Lana are deeply in love. They are soulmates who think their love will overcome all the obstacles. Marek rejects the idea of living under the Soviet regime. Risking incarceration or execution for his anti-Soviet activities, he…mehr

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Love Child is a war-time love story. The year is 1944. The Soviet Army liberates Vilnius, Lithuania, and there Lana meets Marek, a gregarious, charismatic, and fearless Soviet government official who is smuggling Jews to Palestine. Lana, a young courageous surgeon, is saving lives at a military hospital that has followed the Soviet Army since the war broke out. Marek and Lana are deeply in love. They are soulmates who think their love will overcome all the obstacles. Marek rejects the idea of living under the Soviet regime. Risking incarceration or execution for his anti-Soviet activities, he flees the Soviet Union at the first opportunity. Lana is a Soviet patriot. She is pregnant with Marek's baby but will not leave her country or her orphaned young siblings, and she refuses to give up her passionate pursuit of becoming a licensed doctor.
Autorenporträt
Lucy Schneiberg is a lifelong reader and storyteller, raised on Russian and World literature. She specialized in linguistics and English literature. She emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States with her five-year-old son in 1980. Lucy now resides with her family in New Jersey.