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A 2011 National Book Award Finalist in Misinformation, The Sojourn may be the tale of Jozef Vinich, who had been uprooted from the 19th-century mining town in Colorado by way of a family misfortune and results together with his dad to an impoverished shepherd’s existence in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef ties his adopted sibling like a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s military, enduring a dangerous journey over the icy French Alps and seize by a successful enemy.A mixing story of brotherhood, coming-of-age, and success, which was impressed by the author’s own genealogy, this book evokes a period when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, and Germans fought on a single side while split by language, race, and social class in the absolute most ferocious war up to now. It's also a touching story of fathers and daughters, handling the truly amazing immigration to America and the need to live the American dream amidst the unfolding catastrophe in Europe.The Sojourn is Andrew Krivak's first book. Krivak can also be the writer of The Long Escape: Looking For a Spiritual Life, a memoir about his eight years in the Jesuit Order, and publisher of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912.