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The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman 1

by Paullina Simons
Hardback
Publication Date: 04/11/2011
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Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.
ISBN:
9780007904679
9780007904679
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
04-11-2011
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
197x130mm
Paullina Simons

Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad in 1963. As a child she emigrated to Queens, New York, and attended colleges in Long Island. Then she moved to England and attended Essex University, before returning to America. She lives in New York with her husband and children.

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I adore this book, I have just finished reading the trilogy for the second time. Like the first time I become immersed in it that I can barely think of anything except getting back to Tatiana & Alexander.

It is set in Leningrad in the second world war and I found that Simmons creates a world that you feel like you can smell & touch.

Overall it is an epic love story, and one story where the characters stay with you for a very long time.

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