| Description |
331 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages329-331). |
| Summary |
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young doctor, and Ana, a nursery school teacher, know their happiness is precarious. When Andrei treats the child of a senior secret police officer, it becomes painfully clear that his own fate, and that of his family, is bound to the child's.In 1952 Leningrad, Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, post-siege wreckage. But they know their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin?s merciless Ministry of State Security. When Andrei is forced to treat the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, his every move is scrutinized, and it becomes painfully clear that his own fate, and that of his family, is bound to the child?s. Trapped in an impossible game of life and death, and pitted against a power-mad father?s raging grief, Andrei and Anna must avoid the whispers and watchful eyes of those who will say or do anything to save themselves. |
| Subject |
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780802170880 paperback |
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0802170889 paperback |
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