{"product_id":"9781773102757","title":"Wanda's War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Non-Fiction)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it mean to be exiled? For the landmarks of your past to disappear?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans awaiting resettlement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnwilling to return to then-Soviet-occupied Poland, Wanda became one of 100 young Polish women brought to Canada in 1947 to address a labour shortage at a Quebec textile mill. But rather than arriving to long-awaited freedom, the women found themselves captives to their Canadian employer. Their treatment eventually became a national controversy, prompting scrutiny of Canada’s utilitarian immigration policy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWanda seized the opportunity to leave the mill in the midst of a strike in 1948. She never looked back, but she remained silent about her wartime experience. Only after her death did her daughter-in-law assemble the pieces of Wanda’s life in Poland, Nazi Germany, and finally, Canada. In this masterful account of a hidden episode of history, Faubert chronicles the tragedy of exile and the meaning of silence for those whose traumas were never fully recognized. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65419476992349,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781773102757_FC_9f58ffc7-6039-43be-a108-476c020d1d23.jpg?v=1785930196","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781773102757","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}