Balkan Monastery

by Stephen Graham

344 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

Stephen Graham (1884 - 1975) was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims. Most of his works express his sympathy for the poor, for agricultural labourers and for tramps, and his distaste for industrialisation.

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Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely story about a young child in Serbia during WWI and what happened to her and her family. Although it's fiction, it is based on real life incidents of many of the people at that time.