“Finding a Person” is a book about those whom war separated from loved ones, scattered across the world, and about those who, after so many years of separation, still haven’t lost hope of holding each other again.
The story behind this book is unusual: it arose from life itself and from poetry (the poem “Zvenigorod”). The famous writer Agniya Barto tells of a new principle of searching that she discovered and how thousands of Soviet people take part in the search—countless “volunteers of all ages, from students to pensioners.”
The book is built freely and in a distinctive way: alternating accounts of courage and trials of our people with diary entries full of associative digressions; reflections by the writer on people’s fates alternate with her life observations.