Valchen

"Valchen" is the long-awaited new novel by Olga Gromova, the author of one of the main children's books of the 21st century - "Sugar Child". A cloudless summer in Crimea. Ahead of thirteen-year-old Valya are vacations, seventh grade, and four years of excellent studies to achieve her dream of entering medical school. And then - a whole life.
But on June 22, 1941, war broke out, and each day brought changes. A few months will pass, and the girl will be sent along with hundreds of others to Germany, where she will be branded with the sign "OST", like a stamp: "ostarbeiter" - not a human, but cheap labor. Hard work, injustice, deprivation - and growing up, meeting amazing people who call her in German: Valchen.