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The Hay Man
By A J Dutton
This work of fiction is set in the Ukraine province of the USSR and begins in March
1938 with Mikhail Joura, a farmer, is arrested and taken away on the charge of stealing
a bale of hey. As to what became of him, his young family would never discover, whilst
the passing of time, people who might have been able to help would themselves pass
away and such records that might have existed were allowed to disappear. And so,
as with any evidence, Mikhail Joura simply vanished never to be heard of again -
Although this is a story of the imagination, thus far what has been told is true.
However the author was married to the grand daughter of Mikhail Joura and he would
like to think that something better than unexplained invisibility and oblivion was
his fate -
In terms of time and place, this was of course the era of Joseph Stalin and as history
tells us, it was a reign of appalling misery, during which men, women and children
were staved, tortured and murdered -
In his wonderful account A J Dutton follows Mikhail Joura on a journey which will see him incarcerated in one of the many infamous Gulags, but then to find him swept up and carried along by a wave of circumstances until reaching a destination far beyond the expectations and dreams of any man but most surely deserving of a place in the records of social mystery.
The Hay Man will be published in late 2011
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