Winter Battle

When for fifteen years of life you know nothing but fear, have no idea who you are and where you came from, where do you find the strength to face the truth? Where do you find the courage to challenge the habitual world and start the fight? A fight for your freedom, for the right to live, speak, and feel for yourself — as your heart and memory dictate. Memory that they also wanted to take away from you? 
The main characters of the novel escape from state boarding schools to continue their parents' fight. A fight that seems predetermined to lose. On the path to freedom, they will have to make terrible, too 'adult' decisions: to kill or be killed, to go out alone against the army or to get lost in the crowd, to remain silent all their lives or finally sing out loud.
Jean-Claude Mourlevat is a living classic of French literature, the author of more than twenty adult and children's books, and the winner of numerous literary awards, including one of the most prestigious in children's and young adult literature — the Astrid Lindgren Prize (2021).
Mourlevat is the first Frenchman to receive this award. Eight of the author's books have been translated into Russian, including "Winter Battle," "The Grief of the Dead King," "The Child of the Ocean," "The River that Flows Backward," and "Sometimes I Dance" co-authored with Anne-Laure Bondoux.