Author Description

Marina Romani, child of White Russian émigrés, spent the first decade of her life in Shanghai, China-through the years of World War II, China's short post-war period and the resumption of its civil war, the takeover of the country by the forces of Mao Tse Tung, and the Romani family's evacuation, along with several thousand other Russians, to a refugee camp in the Philippine Islands. Memories of her unusual childhood comprise this collection of poems and short prose passages, all set against the background of dramatic and violent international events.