Homeland, I'll be Back! (; ) is a novel for children and young adult by Fedor Samokhin, published in 1975 by the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan".
Plot.
Esen Osmonov and Mikola Danilchenko, along with other children, are kidnapped by the Nazis and transported to Germany. From that moment on, they become pupils of the railway school in Moritzburg, where strict rules prevail. The true purpose of the school is to educate future agents loyal to the Reich and the Fuhrer.
Trying to return to their homeland, the young men face difficulties. The approach of Soviet troops to the German border becomes the reason for the transfer of pupils to the British. When Esen gets hope of salvation after meeting with representatives of the KGB, the main character is kidnapped again and transported to London. Now his main task is to bypass the agents from the MI6, and find the Soviet embassy, in which he is assisted by Londoners and Soviet agents.
Publication and significance.
The novel was published in 1975 by the publishing house "Kyrgyzstan", then it was included in the one-volume collection of the writer's works "Izbrannoe" (1978; ). In 1976, literary critic and the former President of the Kyrgyzstan Writers Union Tendik Askarov attributed the novel to "definitely successful" works that contributed to the development of front-line themes in Kyrgyz literature. In 1981, the magazine "Literary Kyrgyzstan" singled out the novel from among the works written for children and youth, noting the "dramatic" image by the author the struggle of the Soviet Union for the return of children left in Nazi-occupied territories.