The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remo
Solovyov, a young scholar born into obscurity, arrives in St Petersburg to have his thesis topic handed to him: the story of General Larionov. Dismissive at first, his subject soon intrigues the young
From award-winning author Eugene Vodolazkin comes this poignant story of memory, love and loss spanning twentieth-century RussiaA man wakes up in a hospital bed, with no idea who he is or how he came
