This is a great and easy read to understand where the Crimean Tatars are coming from. It allows you to understand what they are doing, and why they are doing it in a way which I feel few Crimean Tatars themselves would be able to explain to you. While reading it, it makes you think of other displaced groups, I thought of different Native American tribes, one person who read it thought of Tajik people from their civil war, any way you look at it, the book speaks of a people seperated from their homeland, and their tentitive and difficult way back to it.
Profoundly moving tale about how difficult it is for the exiled - and their future generations - to adjust and settle down to a homeland which is no longer theirs - except in memories
Really loved this book once I got into it. It gave me a massive insight into a period of history and conflict that I frankly knew nothing about. Told from the perspective of a young girl, you were able to understand better all the emotions, challenges and identity questions they were posed with and how ultimately kindness triumphs.
Wonderful fiction on the return of Crimean Tatars to Crimea. The novel is based on a story of a Crimean Tatar family. The stories make you cry and laugh.
This is the story of a twelve-year-old Crimean Tatar girl Safinar (Safi) Ismailova and her family's valiant struggle to build their new home and start a new life in their ancestral homeland. Lily Hyde, a British journalist, in Safi(nar)'s struggle, actually tells the compelling story of the entire Crimean Tatar nation's struggle to regain their human and national rights in a simple but eloquent language.