The Sojourn (Signed First Edition)

Andrew Krivak

ISBN 10: 1934137340 / ISBN 13: 9781934137345

Published by Bellevue Literary Press (New York), 2011

About this Item

First edition. First printing. Trade paperback original. NEW. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A pristine unread copy. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign. He has signed his name only, without any other writing. Smoke-free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Finalist, National Book Award for Fiction, 2011. His first novel. The book was issued in a small first printing as a trade paperback original. There was no hardcover edition. Winner of the Chautauqua Prize for Literature, 2012. The book went through multiple printings after receiving stellar reviews, even before being nominated as a finalist for the National Book Award. A small first printing, less than 10,000 copies. Seller Inventory # 10-2011-102

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Sojourn (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press (New York)

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

National Book Award Finalist
Chautauqua Prize Winner
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner

“Some writers are good at drawing a literary curtain over reality, and then there are writers who raise the veil and lead us to see for the first time. Krivak belongs to the latter. The Sojourn, about a war and a family and coming-of-age, does not present a single false moment of sentimental creation. Rather, it looks deeply into its characters’ lives with wisdom and humanity, and, in doing so, helps us experience a distant past that feels as if it could be our own.” ―National Book Award judges’ citation

The Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy.

A stirring tale of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and survival, that was inspired by the author’s own family history, this novel evokes a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on the same side while divided by language, ethnicity, and social class in the most brutal war to date. It is also a poignant tale of fathers and sons, addressing the great immigration to America and the desire to live the American dream amid the unfolding tragedy in Europe.

Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in February 2020); The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

About the Author:

Andrew Krivak is the author of three novels: The Bear (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in February 2020); The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is also the author of A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. Krivak lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.