Die Tausend Tage der Anna Michailowna
by:
Helen Dunmore (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783404153732 (3404153731)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Bastei Lübbe
Pages no: 414
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Historical Romance,
Russia,
Modern,
World War II
Series: The Siege (#1)
This was a heavy novel. It was full of beautiful writing, and there were glimpses of hope, but I don't think categorizing it as anything but bleak would be an honest assessment. The siege of Leningrad was a horrifying situation, and Dunmore doesn't try to glamorize or gloss over the plight of the Ru...
In the midst of the bitterest winter, and under siege from the advancing German army, Leningrad starves. And love could so easily die in the appalling conditions of deprivation and suffering. This interesting book evokes a chilling (excuse the pun) picture of life in Leningrad in the early 1940’s, w...