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Underground
A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war.
Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement in mid- 1940s.
After shooting up a room full of Soviet government workers during their engagement party, Lukas and Elena become folk heroes to their political cause, but are forced deep into hiding in order to escape punishment for their role in the massacre.
When their secret bunker is discovered, Lukas is nearly captured. Believing his beloved Elena has been killed in the raid, Lukas is forced to flee the country and the increasingly hopeless resistance movement that he has defended over the years.
Finding himself stranded in Paris, Lukas tries in vain to generate some political interest in the plight of his country. Settling quietly in Europe, Lukas falls in love again, remarries, and begins his life anew. When an unexpected crisis arises back home, the tranquility of Lukas’ new life is shattered. Stealing back into his former country, Lukas embarks on the most important fight of his life.
Based on true historical revelations and fragments of the author’s family history, Underground is an engaging literary thriller and love story that explores the narrow range of options open to men and women in desperate situations, when history crashes into personal desires and private life.
Inspired by true events, Underground tells the story of a troubled romance between Lukas and Elena, two members of the underground Lithuanian resistance movement in mid- 1940s.
After shooting up a room full of Soviet government workers during their engagement party, Lukas and Elena become folk heroes to their political cause, but are forced deep into hiding in order to escape punishment for their role in the massacre.
When their secret bunker is discovered, Lukas is nearly captured. Believing his beloved Elena has been killed in the raid, Lukas is forced to flee the country and the increasingly hopeless resistance movement that he has defended over the years.
Finding himself stranded in Paris, Lukas tries in vain to generate some political interest in the plight of his country. Settling quietly in Europe, Lukas falls in love again, remarries, and begins his life anew. When an unexpected crisis arises back home, the tranquility of Lukas’ new life is shattered. Stealing back into his former country, Lukas embarks on the most important fight of his life.
Based on true historical revelations and fragments of the author’s family history, Underground is an engaging literary thriller and love story that explores the narrow range of options open to men and women in desperate situations, when history crashes into personal desires and private life.
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First published January 1, 2011
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About the author
Antanas Šileika
13 books45 followersAntanas Sileika (Antanas Šileika) is a Canadian novelist and critic of Lithuanian-born parents.
After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he moved to Paris for two years and there married his wife, Snaige Sileika (née Valiunas), an art student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. While in Paris, he studied French, taught English in Versailles, and worked as part of the editorial collective of the expatriate literary journal, Paris Voices, run from the upstairs room of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
Upon his return to Canada in 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant, where he remained until 1988.
After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antanas Sileika published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World (1994), a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming.
His second book, a collection of linked short stories, Buying On Time (1997) was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and was serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies. Some of these stories were anthologized in Dreaming Home, Canadian Short Stories, and the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour.
Antanas Sileika appears occasionally on Canadian television and radio as a free-lance broadcaster.
His third book, Woman in Bronze (2004), compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties.
His latest novel, Underground was released by Thomas Allen & Son in spring of 2011. The new novel is a love story set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s.
He is the director for the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada, and is a past winner of a National Magazine Award.
After completing an English degree at the University of Toronto, he moved to Paris for two years and there married his wife, Snaige Sileika (née Valiunas), an art student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. While in Paris, he studied French, taught English in Versailles, and worked as part of the editorial collective of the expatriate literary journal, Paris Voices, run from the upstairs room of the bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.
Upon his return to Canada in 1979, Antanas began teaching at Humber College and working as a co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant, where he remained until 1988.
After writing for newspapers and magazines, Antanas Sileika published his first novel, Dinner at the End of the World (1994), a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming.
His second book, a collection of linked short stories, Buying On Time (1997) was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and was serialized on CBC Radio's Between the Covers. The book traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies. Some of these stories were anthologized in Dreaming Home, Canadian Short Stories, and the Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour.
Antanas Sileika appears occasionally on Canadian television and radio as a free-lance broadcaster.
His third book, Woman in Bronze (2004), compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties.
His latest novel, Underground was released by Thomas Allen & Son in spring of 2011. The new novel is a love story set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s.
He is the director for the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada, and is a past winner of a National Magazine Award.
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September 11, 2014
Antanas Sileika's Underground is very readable historical fiction focused on a little known topic: underground partisan movement in Lithuania during the last days of World War 2 and after its end, when the Red Army pushed out the Germans and the country fell under Soviet rule. Like most central and eastern European countries, post-war Lithuania was abandoned by its western allies - the Red Army never left, quickly established a new Soviet republic, and independent Lithuania ceased to exist for more than 50 years.
Despite the overwhelming nature of the new regime, groups of devoted and patriotic men and women tried to fight the occupation - they hid in forests outside their towns and villages, but with time even they were exterminated. Stories of and from these countries rarely make it to the mainstream - Sileika recounts how he, as a "New Canadian" was not paying much attention to his heritage, but became interested in his parents' experience of Lithuania after when they spoke about the war; his novel is based on the story of Juozas Luksa, a real Lithuanian partisan who related it in his memoirs - and who is the base for Lukas, the novel's main character.
Underground is not a genre-defining or ground-breaking historical novel - it's good historical fiction, with just the proper dose of romance, tension and love for land. The author's description of his book as "mass-market style novel" describes it perfectly, and not in a negative way - Underground is well-written, manages its drama properly and reads pleasantly - but is overall rather predictable and will not leave a lasting impression, at least for this reader. Still, where it shines is its theme - and it succeeded in drawing attention to a resistance movement in a small Baltic country during World War 2, which is all but forgotten and for many simply unknown. By being accessible and readable it will hopefully encourage readers to discover this particular period of history on their own, and preserve its memory in a new generation.
Despite the overwhelming nature of the new regime, groups of devoted and patriotic men and women tried to fight the occupation - they hid in forests outside their towns and villages, but with time even they were exterminated. Stories of and from these countries rarely make it to the mainstream - Sileika recounts how he, as a "New Canadian" was not paying much attention to his heritage, but became interested in his parents' experience of Lithuania after when they spoke about the war; his novel is based on the story of Juozas Luksa, a real Lithuanian partisan who related it in his memoirs - and who is the base for Lukas, the novel's main character.
Underground is not a genre-defining or ground-breaking historical novel - it's good historical fiction, with just the proper dose of romance, tension and love for land. The author's description of his book as "mass-market style novel" describes it perfectly, and not in a negative way - Underground is well-written, manages its drama properly and reads pleasantly - but is overall rather predictable and will not leave a lasting impression, at least for this reader. Still, where it shines is its theme - and it succeeded in drawing attention to a resistance movement in a small Baltic country during World War 2, which is all but forgotten and for many simply unknown. By being accessible and readable it will hopefully encourage readers to discover this particular period of history on their own, and preserve its memory in a new generation.
December 9, 2014
This historical novel combines romance, politics and partisan war in a way that brings to light a little-known chapter in Lithuania. The Partisan movement, that I knew next to nothing about, began during the Second World War and continued long after.
The details of daily life under repressive forces are disturbing and never to be forgotten. Eastern Europe experienced much different circumstances than the West, and was ignored. In that way this book reminds me of The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Fiction provides a powerful vehicle for a close examination of history.
The details of daily life under repressive forces are disturbing and never to be forgotten. Eastern Europe experienced much different circumstances than the West, and was ignored. In that way this book reminds me of The Cellist of Sarajevo.
Fiction provides a powerful vehicle for a close examination of history.
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April 24, 2011Underground: A Novel by Antanas Sileika is a complicated love story inspired by true events that takes place in Lithuania during the 1940s as the underground resistance fights the communist takeover. At the centre of the novel is Lukas and Elena, both members of the resistance who have a past full of tragedy and a future that doesn't look very promising either. When Lukas and Elena shoot up a room full of Soviet officials during their engagement party they are forced into hiding in order to avoid punishment. Their bunker is discovered and while Lukas escapes imprisonment he believes that Elena has been killed in the raid. Lukas flees Lithuania in an attempt to gain support for the resistance internationally, and eventually finds himself in Paris with a new wife. The bliss is short-lived however, when a crisis and news that Elena may still be alive forces Lukas back to his home country as he embarks on yet another fight for his life.
Considering how well the portion of history this novel covers has been pushed underground, it was a bit odd that is the second book I have read on the topic in 2011. Earlier this year I read the young adult novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys which follows a girl who was sent to Siberia, a fate shared by many Lithuanians and which is also mentioned in Underground although Sileika's focus is on what happened to Lithuanians left behind in a country they could no longer call their own.
I found the summary of Underground to be quite misleading, as most of the events discussed in order to hook the reader into the story don't actually take place into fairly far into the novel and a decent chunk of the story is instead dedicated to how Lukas and his brother came to join the resistance as well as what it was like for them once they did. I find this portion of the novel really interesting, as Sileika clearly shows the changes a person needs to make in order to survive in such a situation, and what happens when they are not able to make them. That said, the beginning was definitely at a slower pace than the second half of the novel and it is definitely the short portion of the novel following Lukas' attempt to return to Lithuania which has the biggest thrill to it.
Sileika's writing was inconsistent for me, while there were portions which were quite straightforward and direct there were other portions which were equally poetic and lyrical. Often I felt the dialogue didn't flow well and created a distance between the character and the reader. That said, there is incredible stark imagery present throughout Underground which was definitely my favourite aspect of Sileika's writing and included statements like:
"The new rulers were barbers, who sat you down in the chair and promised a trim but kept on clipping and clipping all the way down to the scalp, and when it looked as if there was nothing left to cut, you saw them eyeing the straight razor and you shuddered to think what might be coming next."
I was actually quite surprised by the ending of the book, in a good way, and the final chapter of the novel ties up all the loose ends very nicely. I did think it was a little rushed, but Underground is definitely a novel where the majority of the action is focused near the end. Although both the pace and the writing were sometimes inconsistent in Underground, the moments of poetry and incredible insight into a forgotten part of history result in an interesting and worthwhile novel by Sileika.
Considering how well the portion of history this novel covers has been pushed underground, it was a bit odd that is the second book I have read on the topic in 2011. Earlier this year I read the young adult novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys which follows a girl who was sent to Siberia, a fate shared by many Lithuanians and which is also mentioned in Underground although Sileika's focus is on what happened to Lithuanians left behind in a country they could no longer call their own.
I found the summary of Underground to be quite misleading, as most of the events discussed in order to hook the reader into the story don't actually take place into fairly far into the novel and a decent chunk of the story is instead dedicated to how Lukas and his brother came to join the resistance as well as what it was like for them once they did. I find this portion of the novel really interesting, as Sileika clearly shows the changes a person needs to make in order to survive in such a situation, and what happens when they are not able to make them. That said, the beginning was definitely at a slower pace than the second half of the novel and it is definitely the short portion of the novel following Lukas' attempt to return to Lithuania which has the biggest thrill to it.
Sileika's writing was inconsistent for me, while there were portions which were quite straightforward and direct there were other portions which were equally poetic and lyrical. Often I felt the dialogue didn't flow well and created a distance between the character and the reader. That said, there is incredible stark imagery present throughout Underground which was definitely my favourite aspect of Sileika's writing and included statements like:
"The new rulers were barbers, who sat you down in the chair and promised a trim but kept on clipping and clipping all the way down to the scalp, and when it looked as if there was nothing left to cut, you saw them eyeing the straight razor and you shuddered to think what might be coming next."
I was actually quite surprised by the ending of the book, in a good way, and the final chapter of the novel ties up all the loose ends very nicely. I did think it was a little rushed, but Underground is definitely a novel where the majority of the action is focused near the end. Although both the pace and the writing were sometimes inconsistent in Underground, the moments of poetry and incredible insight into a forgotten part of history result in an interesting and worthwhile novel by Sileika.
December 4, 2013
Underground is a novel based on Sielika's parents’ experiences in the Latvian resistance to Russian occupation beginning in 1944. In both cases, the authors stumbled upon their parent’s stories late in the latter’s lives. As Antanas put it, “I grew up as a new Canadian assuming, like most of my friends, that my parents were boring. Then one day my mother remarked on the sound of a plane flying overhead; that prior to emigrating, she had to identify the difference between American and Russian planes in order to avoid being strafed by the Russians as they fled across East Germany.” Thus began his research into his parents’ lives in Lithuania and the result is a novel grounded in the little-known record of the Baltic resistance movement.
The opening chapter describes an engagement party in Latvia in 1945 where Lukas and Elena, the young couple, shoot the guests, all members of the Russian secret police. The partisans’ lives prior to and during the War are then detailed. For Western Europe and the Allies, the War ended that year, but for the Balkan states, treated as pawns to reward Stalin for Russia’s role in defeating Hitler, the struggle for independence continued for the next decade. Life in the resistance was literally underground: partisans hiding out in dugouts in forests, aided by local farmers, and launching guerrilla attacks on the Reds. Lukas eventually escapes to Paris via Sweden and falls in love. News that Elena may still be alive draws him back to Latvia. But has he been double-crossed into a trap?
The opening chapter describes an engagement party in Latvia in 1945 where Lukas and Elena, the young couple, shoot the guests, all members of the Russian secret police. The partisans’ lives prior to and during the War are then detailed. For Western Europe and the Allies, the War ended that year, but for the Balkan states, treated as pawns to reward Stalin for Russia’s role in defeating Hitler, the struggle for independence continued for the next decade. Life in the resistance was literally underground: partisans hiding out in dugouts in forests, aided by local farmers, and launching guerrilla attacks on the Reds. Lukas eventually escapes to Paris via Sweden and falls in love. News that Elena may still be alive draws him back to Latvia. But has he been double-crossed into a trap?
July 30, 2014
definitely the finest story of Lithuania and of the partisan movement I have ever experienced. what happens when you see the culture you cherish and admire so much depicted by means of your fav way of thinking? in this case, the Lithuanian culture and the Canadian way of approaching the truth. you get something completely impossible not to take closer to you.
I`m glad that with the help of A.Šileika (whom I could have met a couple of years ago but failed to remember the meeting) Lithuania has become as accessible to the world as it has never been. The author did not hesitate to show what the soviet porn(ide)ology was pretty much all about which makes me happy as hell.
unfortunately, if Lithuania had such great writers, our literature would have become top class. now what we have is what Rimantas, the character in the novel, presents quite accurately - writers who fail to be true, who concentrate on irrelevant issues. certainly, with some exceptions.
after all, Underground is the finest reading in years, a definite re-read and a definite recommendation for all the people I know. 6 stars out of 5.
masterpiece.
I`m glad that with the help of A.Šileika (whom I could have met a couple of years ago but failed to remember the meeting) Lithuania has become as accessible to the world as it has never been. The author did not hesitate to show what the soviet porn(ide)ology was pretty much all about which makes me happy as hell.
unfortunately, if Lithuania had such great writers, our literature would have become top class. now what we have is what Rimantas, the character in the novel, presents quite accurately - writers who fail to be true, who concentrate on irrelevant issues. certainly, with some exceptions.
after all, Underground is the finest reading in years, a definite re-read and a definite recommendation for all the people I know. 6 stars out of 5.
masterpiece.
November 7, 2015
This story of the underground resistance in Lithuania during and after WWII has left its mark on me. What I loved most was the way the Lithuanian-ness of the characters was expressed. The author described the hardships Lithuanians suffered through the war and under Soviet rule through what felt like a uniquely Eastern European humour and pragmatism that was brilliant and complicated. The author is Lithuanian-Canadian and has clearly done his research to achieve such a convincing tone.
This novel has made me curious about the history of Eastern European nations, and has given me a head-start on learning some of that history. Also, Underground was an incredibly romantic love story. It makes me wonder if all the best love stories are ones that are set amidst hardship.
This novel has made me curious about the history of Eastern European nations, and has given me a head-start on learning some of that history. Also, Underground was an incredibly romantic love story. It makes me wonder if all the best love stories are ones that are set amidst hardship.
March 31, 2012
I read this book because I loved Sileika's first novel, "Buying on Time" (I could so relate to the immigrant experience he described), a good friend's family are Lithuanian refugees, and I have met the author. It opened my eyes to a part of WWII history I knew nothing about. Having recently learned new things about my parents' story during the war, it makes me wonder how many other untold stories and family secrets are now long gone and forgotten. True history is often "Underground". A marvellous book, a story well told, a story that needed to be told.
December 20, 2013
Having traveled to Lithuania this year I was trying to soak up as much Lithuania as I could and a good part of that has involved learning the history. This novel helps put another piece of that history into place. It is well written and tells a story that is historically situated and as a result helps you understand a bit more about Lithuania during the Soviet occupation.
December 23, 2011
I really enjoyed this book! It was different than I was expecting, but it was very well told and written. I loved the fact that it was set in a familiar time period (post-WWII), but told the story of those trapped behind the Iron Curtain and who were all but forgotten by the Western countries.
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March 16, 2012The novel gives the reader a view of the lives of the Lithuanian resistance, the horrors of occupation and the passion of some for justice for their homeland. The love story is a connecting thread but not the real impact of the story.
July 10, 2021
Underground is a fascinating story centerinig on the brave men and women of the Lithuanian partisans - ordinary citizens who hid deep in the forests of the Baltic countryside and fought desperately for their freedom. Equal parts love story and resistance tale, the book focuses on an often overlooked chapter in European history. A little bleak at times, however, in that sense, a very accurate representation of the dispiriting nature of partisan life in the 1940s. Very well researched and crafted by Canada's (and Lithuania's) very own Antanas Sileika.
January 29, 2020
Antanas Sileika uses the novel form to educate the reader about life in Eastern Europe after the Nazis surrendered to the Allies. Unlike Western Europe, Eastern European resistance fighters were still fighting for their freedom. Unlike the West those in Lithuania and other Eastern countries had to battle with Stalin as well as Hitler. Their fight continued until 1991 but their armed struggle ended in the early 50's. The characters of Underground are vivid and real and engage the reader in learning about this often overlooked part of WWII and the cold war.
August 5, 2021
Antanas crafted a compelling and fascinating saga that kept me enthralled till the end. I learned so much about the Lithuanian resistance that I didn't know. Antanas's research paid off as he was able to create authentic characters who I cared about. This is a novel that I am glad I took the time to read.
September 2, 2012
As far as most of us in the West are concerned, World War Two ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the capitulation of Japanese forces in August 1945. But for the people of Lithuania the withdrawal of German troops in 1944 simply meant the exchange of one oppression for another when the Soviets resumed the occupation the war had interrupted. Antanas Sileika's novel Underground tells the story of the Lithuanian resistance in the years immediately following the German withdrawal. Lukas and Elena make themselves targets when they brazenly execute a group of drunken Soviet officials at a party meant to celebrate their engagement. They go underground and join the resistance, which, with dwindling resources, is waging an increasingly futile struggle against the Soviet occupiers. When Lukas loses track of Elena during a skirmish, he assumes she has been killed, and he allows himself to be persuaded to leave Lithuania for Europe, where, with his reputation as something of a folk hero the hope is that he will rally support for the Lithuanian struggle. But the Soviets have many allies willing to turn a blind eye to their brutal actions in order to keep the peace. In Paris he remarries and attempts to live a normal life. But then word reaches him of events in his homeland and the dire situation of the resistance movement, and he is compelled to return. Underground is a timeless and very human story, one that tells of small triumphs amidst widespread tragedy. Antanas Sileika writes without sentiment of a dark period in history and gives a voice to people who struggled long and hard to regain their freedom.
June 7, 2013
I received this book as a gift, ahead of a holiday I'm planning to take to visit Lithuania. It is a well written story with an added twist that much of the history is based on fact or true events that did take place (something I always enjoy when reading). Not wishing to give away the full plot, but the story focuses on the life on one key man, Lukas who joins the partisan/lithuanian resistance movement during the WW2. It follows his experience of survival, loss, hardship and a complicated love triangle. Whilst the opening chapters are a little slower paced, things quickly pick up pace and an engaging thriller unfolds. You get the impression that the author has much to share and insufficient time to explain all. He rushes through some chapters to push forward to explaining the next twist or turn. It is very well written but he falls down a little during the "love scenes". Either he felt uncomfortable writing those sections or felt them unimportant to "waste time" to develop and expand. As a women, I would have preferred a few light moment of tenderness amongst all the bleak and harrowing crisis that Lukas faced. Perhaps better to have left those lines out than included them so bluntly.
No matter, I enjoyed the story and would highly recommend. I must also confess I was shocked to learn how this country was abandoned at the end of WW2 and the fate of so many of their people. Indeed, I felt embarrassed (even though I was not born) that people in my country, in the West, failed to help them... It certainly opened my eyes about the dreadful situation that was imposed upon the people of Lithuania. Let's hope this will never be repeated again.
No matter, I enjoyed the story and would highly recommend. I must also confess I was shocked to learn how this country was abandoned at the end of WW2 and the fate of so many of their people. Indeed, I felt embarrassed (even though I was not born) that people in my country, in the West, failed to help them... It certainly opened my eyes about the dreadful situation that was imposed upon the people of Lithuania. Let's hope this will never be repeated again.
July 21, 2012
A historical novel about the Lithuanian partisan fight during and after world war two. Not something I'd normally pick up, but it was recommended by a friend who thought it reminded her of my dad. And it did, a whole lot. It was a well told story with interesting characters and a sweet love story, but what I really gained from this story was the history, something my dad has never talked about. It made me understand how hard life was during the time Lithuania was handed from the Germans to the Russians and it made me understand a lot more about my dad.
October 23, 2021
Nenorėjau skaityt apie lietuvių partizanų kovas, vengdama įsijausti į jų sukrečiamus likimus. Per daug baisu tai, ką jie išgyveno. “Pogrindį” atsiverčiau tarsi netyčia, nes labai patiko šio rašytojo “Pirkiniai išsimokėtinai”.
Skaičiau “Pogrindį” darydama pertraukas, vis bijodama prieiti baisių scenų, tačiau negalėjau sustoti. Rašytojas “apsaugojo” skaitytoją, to meto atmosferą, tragiškus įvykius bei likimus perteikdamas santūriai, bet labai įtaigiai.
Labai džiaugiuosi ją perskaičiusi. Man tai bus nepamirštama knyga.
Skaičiau “Pogrindį” darydama pertraukas, vis bijodama prieiti baisių scenų, tačiau negalėjau sustoti. Rašytojas “apsaugojo” skaitytoją, to meto atmosferą, tragiškus įvykius bei likimus perteikdamas santūriai, bet labai įtaigiai.
Labai džiaugiuosi ją perskaičiusi. Man tai bus nepamirštama knyga.
July 15, 2012
I thoroughly enjoyed Underground by Antanas Sileika. It was good to learn about the history of Lithuania, the struggles of WW2 and the post-war experience under communism.It was another perspective, a more heroic one, perhaps than that offered by by Sofi Oksanen in her book about Estonia, Purge which was very powerful and much darker.
December 10, 2015
Puiki knyga apie pilną nuotykių ir meilės partizano Luko gyvenimą, persipinusį tikrais istoriniais įvykiais Europoje, istorija, kuri tikrai galėjo nutikti ar gal būt beveik įvyko pvz. Juozui Lukšai? Tai antra mano skaityta Antano Šileikos knyga, kuriose rašytojas sugeba pateikti istoriją lengvai, įdomiai, subtiliai paprastai ir svarbiausia - artimai. Rekomenduoju!
July 11, 2012
Underground is a well crafted story of Lukas and Elena, who get involved in the Lithuanian underground resistance movement.The story is based on events that did occur in Lithuania. I enjoyed this story.
September 22, 2012
I liked the story very much, but it could have been more urgently told.
August 10, 2016
Decent but too many asides to explain Lithuanian words or history that would have been better served in an epilogue or history chapter at the end of the book.
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