![]() Zlee spotted him when he was still on his bike, which made one hell of a racket in the quiet dawn. My first kill was a member of the Bersiglieri, the elite Italian infantry, though to me he was just a solider who got as close as possible to the forward line on motorcycle and then marched several hundred yards carrying a leather pouch toward a manned trench. Andrew says the seed of the novel for him was the question -how did these men survive? Was it some sort of capricious sense of fate? Or did they do something that others didn't?īook Excerpt: "The Sojourn" By: Andrew Krivak After the war ends, he makes a trek across the Italian Alps to return home.Īndrew was inspired to write many of the events of the novel by his family history: his grandfather went to war for the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I and survived a POW camp. Jozef becomes a sniper, but eventually is captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp. It tells the story of Jozef, whose life as a shepherd in rural Austria-Hungary is interrupted by the start of World War I. ![]() ![]() (Courtesy of Bellevue Literary Press)Īndrew Krivak of Somerville, Massachusetts, has been nominated for this year's National Book Award for his debut novel "The Sojourn." Facebook Email This article is more than 11 years old. ![]()
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