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In 2000, Danys built a cross "In the memory of Daniai family" in his native land at Trumpiškiai where it used to be a family house. In 2014, in the same location at Trumpiškiai, his grandson Žilvinas Danys has started to create a
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talks about events during the
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is the last book in the series. The novel shows life several generations after the war. It talks about the lasting impact of painful experiences on those who lived during a war time. It also shows how past political events and supporting one ideology or the other impacted the destiny of children and
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during which all private land was nationalised by the Soviet Union. The drama of the land nationalisation highlights
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Lithuania. The character of the book is a young charismatic man who discloses how employees of the factory were forced to steal from a workplace for survival. The core theme of the novel is an internal conflict and an attempt of young people to find a right
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which Danys got to know about during his work as a rural teacher. The novel shows a reality of a guerrilla warfare that was on between civilians and the Soviet occupants in 1944-1953. The core theme of the book is a divide between youth from the same village. The novel analyses complicated
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achieved people have to change their worldview and do it by themselves. The novel talks about interpersonal relationships between youth, love, selfish attempts to secure a material wealth through arranged marriage. The novel was published in 2006.
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were allowed to be published. All artists, including writers, scriptwriters and cinema directors were forced to adapt the original stories with the demands of the
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that he wrote, although a writer refused to follow a demand of the Soviet censorship and he burned a script instead. This event inspired Danys to write the series of four novels connected by the same characters.
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talks about conflicting worldviews between descendants from wealthy families. The core theme of the book is a connection with nature and a mother land. The novel was written in 1983-1987, published in 2004.
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is the first book in the series. The novel covers the events during the German occupation of
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Danys, Alfonsas (1978). "Visiems Užteks": Satire. – Vilnius: Vaga."
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