'Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in... Læs mere
Winner of the Wolfson Prize 2013 and Herald Books of the Year 2014, this book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and its sheer unexpectedness: an impregnable fortress which has repeatedly been devastated, a symbol of all that is Russian substantially created by Italians.
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Remarkable ... If only all first novels were as enthralling as this'... Læs mere
'A gripping thriller and Belkin is a character many readers will want to encounter again' THE TIMES 'A heartbreaking and passionate novel of the cruelty and fragility of love, death and life in Stalinist Russia' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Moscow, 1934.