The Russländer

Name: The Russländer
Author: Sandra Birdsell

by Sandra Birdsell

Mennonite family endures displacement, war, and cultural assimilation

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Sandra Birdsell

Canadian novelist and short-story writer of Mennonite and Ojibwa descent whose fiction chronicles the mixed communities of southern Manitoba. The Russländer is her most internationally celebrated work. She is an important figure in western Canadian literature.

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