The Siege
of Helen Dunmore
Series: The Siege #1
Description
Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty-two-year-old Anna. Though she dreams of an artist's life, she must instead forage for food in the ever more desperate city and watch her little brother grow cruelly thin. Their father, a blacklisted writer who once advocated a robust life of the mind, withers in spirit and body. At such brutal times everything is tested. And yet Dunmore's inspiring story shows that even then, the triumph of the human heart is that love need not fall away.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304 pages
- Publisher Grove Press
- Publication Date November 22nd 2002
- First Publication 11/06/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780802139580
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Leningrad, USSR']
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