'Breath of Thunderstorm' is the second novel in Ivan Melezh's 'Polesia Chronicle.' It continues the drama of life in the village of Kureni: collectivization, the collapse of centuries-old traditions, and human destinies at the turning point of an era.
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.…
