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Voices in the Air
What would drive women to risk the lives of their children and innocent people to leave their mother country forever?
On April 30, 1982, two women and their families hijack a Polish passenger plane flying from Breslau to Warsaw in a bold attempt to escape Martial Law in Communist Poland and find safety in West Berlin. Among the hijackers are a cotton spinner whose husband wants to avoid a long prison sentence, a schoolteacher with a sick daughter, a pregnant fourteen-year-old who has visions of the Virgin Mary, and an ambitious young filmmaker. Inspired by real events, Voices in the Air is told from the point of view of these four women and a stewardess in love with the married pilot.  Will they find happiness beyond the Iron Curtain or was the hijacking not worth the risk?Â
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Told using traditional narrative and documentary film-style interviews, Voices in the Air follows the main characters’ lives before and after the hijacking, and through real-life events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fight for women’s rights in modern Poland, the Covid pandemic and the refugee crisis on the Polish-Belarus border. A must-read novel exploring ambiguous moral choice, censorship, emigration, fate and regret.
What would drive women to risk the lives of their children and innocent people to leave their mother country forever
On April 30 1982 two women and their families hijack aPolish passenger planeflying from Breslau to Warsaw in a bold attempt to escapeMartial Law in Communist Polandand find safety in West BerlinAmong the hijackers are a cotton spinner whose husband wants to avoid a long prison sentence a schoolteacher with a sick daughter a pregnant fourteenyearold who has visions of the Virgin Mary and an ambitious young filmmakerInspired by real events Voices in the Air is told from the point of view of these four women and a stewardess in love with the married pilotWill they find happiness beyond the Iron Curtain or was the hijacking not worth the riskTold using traditional narrative and documentaryfilmstyle interviews Voices in the Airfollows the main characters lives before and after the hijacking and throughreallife events as the fall of the Berlin Wall the fight for womens rights in modern Poland the Covid pandemic and the refugee crisis on the PolishBelarus border A mustread novel exploringambiguousmoral choice censorship emigration fateand regret
On April 30 1982 two women and their families hijack aPolish passenger planeflying from Breslau to Warsaw in a bold attempt to escapeMartial Law in Communist Polandand find safety in West BerlinAmong the hijackers are a cotton spinner whose husband wants to avoid a long prison sentence a schoolteacher with a sick daughter a pregnant fourteenyearold who has visions of the Virgin Mary and an ambitious young filmmakerInspired by real events Voices in the Air is told from the point of view of these four women and a stewardess in love with the married pilotWill they find happiness beyond the Iron Curtain or was the hijacking not worth the riskTold using traditional narrative and documentaryfilmstyle interviews Voices in the Airfollows the main characters lives before and after the hijacking and throughreallife events as the fall of the Berlin Wall the fight for womens rights in modern Poland the Covid pandemic and the refugee crisis on the PolishBelarus border A mustread novel exploringambiguousmoral choice censorship emigration fateand regret
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8.25in * 5.25in * .55in
360.00gr
Published:
February 15, 2025
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9781990293894
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