Melting boat. Karaganda story. Zeiphart E.I.

The story of Elena Zeephart consists of many private stories of the heroes: among them, Luke, who came with a family from Germany to Russia, deported from the Volga region to Kazakhstan Mariyka, Ukrainian Germans Friedrich and Rosa, our contemporary Johanna. Each of their fates belongs to its historical segment, each reveals its own tragedy - personal and collective. Carefully collected by the author, woven into one common plot and a melting boat united by the image, these stories turn into a piercing and deep reflection on the ever -relevant human experience - about the loss and search for a house.

Elena Zeiphart - a prose writer, poet, translator, literary critic and philologist, specialist in the history of Russian Germans.