Bronski House, The

In the summer of 1992, exiled poet Zofia Ilinska returned to the Belorussian village of her childhood to confront her past and a world that vanished in 1939 when Soviet tanks rolled into eastern Poland. Award-winning writer Philip Marsden, who is personally acquainted with his subject, chronicles the story of a family and at the same time offers a traveler's elegy for a way of life destroyed by the 20th century.