'Breath of the Thunderstorm' is the second novel in Ivan Melezh's 'Polesia Chronicle' series about life in a Polesia village during the era of collectivization. It continues the dramatic stories of the characters in 'People in the Swamp.'
The book is 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.…
