It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated
from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered
teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her
father's death in the war, and denounces her to the authorities for
the petty theft that keeps them from going hungry. When she meets a
Jewish lieutenant who has returned to bury his family, betrayed and
murdered by their neighbors during the occupation, both must come
to terms with the trauma that surrounds them as their relationship
deepens. Redemption is a stark and powerful portrait of humanity
caught up in Stalin's police state in the aftermath of the war and
the Holocaust. In this short novel, written in 1967 but unpublished
for many years, Friedrich Gorenstein effortlessly combines the
concrete details of daily life in this devastated society with
witness testimonies to the mass murder of Jews. He gives a
realistic account of postwar Soviet suffering through nuanced
psychological portraits of people confronted with harsh choices and
a coming-of-age story underscored by the deep involvement of
sexuality and violence. Interspersed are flights of philosophical
consideration of the relationship between Christians and Jews, love
and suffering, justice and forgiveness. A major addition to the
canon of literature bearing witness to the Holocaust in the Soviet
Union, Redemption is an important reckoning with anti-Semitism and
Stalinist repression from a significant Soviet Jewish voice.
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