The Siege
by:
Helen Dunmore (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786241460 (0786241462)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 442
Edition language: English
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...
10 years ago
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