The Ship of Widows

"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens "The Ship of Widows, " the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the [...]
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"My husband was killed at the front right at the beginning of the war." Thus opens "The Ship of Widows, " the story of five women brought together in a large communal apartment by the vagaries of war in the year 1943. It spotlights the female experience of World War II: the fate of those not at the front, but still forced to fight as desperately to survive starvation, cold, and exhaustion, and to maintain homes and a country to which the soldiers can return. "The Ship of Widows" reveals an seldom-seen period of Russia's history and an understudied segment of its population---it's women.