The White Lamb: The Story of Evaliz / Shukar Balan

About this book

The title words "Shukar Balan" and "White Lamb " are one and the same. This is what a tall dark and handsome Gypsy fiddler called Evaliz a blond sixteen-year-old Russian-German peasant girl at a wedding dance under the stars in Russia 1893. Shukar Balan: The White Lamb is the story of a philosophical father and a son who dreams only of the military - who wants to be a skilled horseman exactly like the Don Cossack. But mainly it is the story of Evaliz the daughter who wills her life to be different and who longs for America - that land of liberty and freedom which lies far across the sea. But many things have to happen before her longing is stilled.