'Snowstorms, December' is a novel by Ivan Melezh, part of the epic 'Polesia Chronicle.' It continues the story of life in a Polesie village during the turbulent 1920s and 1930s, and the fates of people during the era of collectivization.
Book in Belarusian
Ivan Pavlovich Melezh was a Belarusian Soviet prose writer, playwright, and publicist.
Ivan Melezh was born into a peasant family. In 1938 he graduated with honors from school in Khoiniki, and in 1939 entered the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy, and Literature, but was drafted into the army already in his first year.
In the summer of 1940 he took part in the liberation of Bessarabia and Bukovina. During the Great Patriotic War he fought near Nikolaev, Lazovaya, and Rostov-on-Don; in 1941 he was wounded.…
