The Betrayal

by Helen Dunmore | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1905490593 Global Overview for this book
Registered by luckof of Barrie, Ontario Canada on 6/7/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by luckof from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Monday, June 7, 2010

Product Description
Leningrad in 1952 is a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha, preparations for the hospital ball, work and the care of sixteen year old Kolya fill their minds. They try hard to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but even so their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is still in power, and the Ministry for State Security has new targets in its sights. When Andrei has to treat the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, Volkov, he finds himself and his family caught in an impossible game of life and death - for in a land ruled by whispers and watchfulness, betrayal can come from those closest to you. A gripping and deeply moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, "The Betrayal" brilliantly shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of violence and terror.

About the Author
Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin: Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby, House of Orphans, Counting the Stars and The Betrayal. She is also a poet, children's novelist and short-story writer.



Received this copy from the wonderful people at Penguin -- will be sending this off as bookray

Journal Entry 2 by deereads at Barrie, Ontario Canada on Saturday, September 14, 2013
This landed on my shelf! Thanks for sharing.

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