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The Wanderers (Rimland novel)

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The Wanderers
First edition
AuthorIngrid Rimland
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherConcordia
Publication date
1977
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages323 (hardcover)
ISBN0-570-03266-0

The Wanderers is a novel by Ingrid Rimland published in 1977 loosely based upon her own experiences from growing up in a Mennonite community in Ukraine. Rimland wanted to write a novel about her people, and The Wanderers tells the story of the plight of Mennonite women caught in the social upheavals of revolution and war. The novel traces the decimation of a pacifist people during the Russian Revolution, anarchy, famine, the Stalinist purges, escape from Ukraine, and eventual resettlement in the rain forests of Paraguay.

The novel remains Rimland's most acclaimed book. It earned her the California Literature Medal Award for best fiction in 1977.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Wilfred Martens, Book review: The Wanderers, Direction, 1979
  2. ^ James C. Juhnke, Ingrid Rimland, the Mennonites, and the Demon Doctor Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, Mennonite Life, vol. 60 no. 1, 2005