Walk the Earth as Brothers
A Novel
Two Jewish brothers plan futures full of achievement and maybe fame. But Warsaw in the summer of 1939 is no place for dreamers.
Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners. He too finds someone, an exiled poet named Nadhya, until he must choose: stay with her or cross all of Russia to return to the future he'd envisioned.
Walk the Earth as Brothers is the story of two pawns in a titanic world war, of bravery, random chance, kindness, betrayal and love, and of what happens to the hopes and dreams of Ian and Daniel.
Henry Rozycki grew up in Montreal as the only child of Holocaust survivors. He began his studies at McGill University intending to become a writer but took a thirty-year detour into a career in medicine. Since returning to writing, his work has been published in literary journals, in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, and in newspapers, including the New York Times. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Mary, and together they have seven children, four grandchildren and two dogs.
