Synopsis
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, a novel of love and war follows the Levin family--twenty-two year-old Anna, her young brother Kilya, and their father, Mikhail--as they struggle to survive during the German siege.
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A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully * Sunday Telegraph * Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better * Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph * Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel * Antony Beevor, The Times * Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there * Sunday Telegraph * A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds * Mail on Sunday * In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece * Independent * A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time * Sunday Express * An important as well as a thrilling work of art * Independent on Sunday * A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful * Daily Mail * A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive * Sunday Times *
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