03123cam a2200469 i 4500 451671549 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 201113s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020430590 9781525831515 hardback 1525831518 hardback 9781525823565 paperback 1525823566 paperback (OCoLC)1089729390 NjBwBT eng ZHW rda rda ZQP IN4 LNC BDX PZQ OCLCO ORX OCLCQ OCLCO TOH JBO KUA FEM JNE KYC OCLCO TYA ANK TNH CNCAR OCLCO W9C ILC OCLCO B@L VP@ SSH OCLCO JCX OCLCO SOM OCLCO LKC OCLCF OCLCO PZT OCLCO SOC JTH OCLCO KE7 WYG TCH OCLCO PRSPR OCLCO OCL OCLCO DLC TxAuBib rda Rimmer, Kelly. The things we cannot say / Kelly Rimmer. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2019] ©2019. 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina's tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents' farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief. Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced ... and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it. 20200101. 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Poland Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Family secrets. Grandmothers Fiction. Grandmothers. FICTION / Family Life / General. FICTION / Women. FICTION / Friendship. Poland. Historical fiction. Fiction. Romance fiction. Love stories.