The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands Philip Marsden, Киев

In the summer of 1992, the exiled poet Zofia Ilinska stepped into the Belorussian village where she'd spent her childhood. It was 53 years since the day she'd been forced to flee. In part, this is the remarkable story of what she found, the account of a woman coming face-to-face with her own past. But it is also the reconstruction of a world which vanished in 1939 when Soviet tanks rolled into eastern Poland.