Too Great a Sky: A Novel

The story of the deportation of Romanians from Bucovina, an exercise in historical memory which demonstrates how to maintain humanity in impossible conditions. A new novel from Liliana Corobca and her award-winning translator Monica Cure.

Ana is eleven when the Soviet soldiers send her from Bucovina, Romania, to Kazakhstan. She is just one of many forced to leave behind her home and make the three week long journey via train. The trip is a harsh, humiliating one, but in spite of the cold an...