22 Britannia Road: A Novel Characters & Character Analysis

22 Britannia Road: A Novel Characters

Silvana Nowak

Silvana Nowak is a young Polish woman whose life begins to change when she becomes pregnant with her boyfriend's child. They quickly marry and move to Warsaw to begin their lives together. When the war comes to Poland, Janusz, her husband, leaves to join the army and she is left to care for their young son. She finally flees Warsaw and ends living in the woods. At this point, she has no contact with her family and her son has died. She had left him in a cart where she had found a crying boy about the same age as her son. In her crazed mental state, she saw this baby boy as the replacement for her son and she began calling him Aurek, the same name as her dead son. They spent the next several years hiding in the woods and on various farms, relying on other characters to...
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