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After a traumatic break up with her boyfriend in Chicago, Sylvia is persuaded to go on a trip to Lithuania, the land of her ancestors. She doesn't expect to find new friends who take her to some of the most beautiful places in the country. Nor does she expect to fall for an Olympic rower or meet a bossy ghost who's determined to give her history lessons at every opportunity. However, Sylvia has to make an important decision. Should she go back to Chicago or stay in Lithuania?

Name: Gadoh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great historical story
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2019
Review: I loved it because it gave me insight to my family's struggles under the occupation in Lithuania.

Name: Annette M. Hardock
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2018
Review: Awesome book. Really enjoyed the story. I recommend this book.

Name: Jurate Grigonis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lithuania's unique history of book smuggling in a novel
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2018
Review: A very important part of Lithuanian history concerns book smugglers.
Just google Lithuanian book smugglers and the story is there on Wikipedia. There are also some videos on YouTube but not in English. I have watched a dramatisation which is very good but being in Lithuanian, it is clearly not accessible to all who are interested in this subject.
On the other hand, a different way to learn about this and related events in Lithuania's history is to read Jura Reilly's latest book, "Sylvia's Book Smuggler".
The story of Sylvia's trip to Lithuania is the device through which the reader receives all this new information.
This novel also uses the literary device of a ghost who tells the story in fictional form of author Jura's great grandfather and others who were involved in the book smuggling movement at a time when use of Lithuanian language in any form of Roman alphabet text was banned. My own paternal grandfather read his first Lithuanian language books courtesy of book smugglers and became a teacher in one of many underground schools around the country.
This ban on any overt or official use of our language lasted for 40 years but Lithuanians are a determined lot and the language survived despite various attempts at russification and/or polonisation to exterminate it both then and since.
Many activists suffered persecution, exile and/or death but the language survived and went from strength to strength.
Linguistics scholars worldwide are extremely grateful for this as the language is unique and its forms are of special interest to language researchers.
Reading Jura's book in its modern fictional setting, is a pleasant and easy way to learn about this period of Lithuanian history.
Although I am pretty familiar with much of the history, I learned about a couple of events of which I had been unaware.
The main character, Sylvia, travels to several interesting and special places in Lithuania and the reader learns about these spots along with her through the people she meets. The ghost speaks just to her and teaches her about the smuggling that took place. By the end of the novel the events and places are inextricably linked.
Author Jura cleverly weaves in little packages of history, but never in a didactic tone.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading her novel, which is really a tribute not only to her great grandfather, Tomas Zickauskas-Zickus but to all those who risked their lives and those of their families when they undertook to ensure that the Lithuanian language be kept alive and accessible through the printed word.
"Sylvia's Book Smuggler" is a superb way to find out about this most significant period in Lithuanian history.