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[Helen Dunmore] ☆ The Siege: A Novel ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Siege: A Novel Captivated by THE SIEGE This is a very dramatic and emotional story. The reader really cares about Anna, little Kolya, and the rest of her family as they struggle to survive this horrific ordeal. I was particularly moved by the way Anna reflects on the things that she once took for granted - her father reading poetry, cloudberry jam, bread that is fresh and plentiful. The author presents the unspeakable conditions of the siege of Leningrad while always holding out the thin breath of survival in
| Title | : | The Siege: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.16 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802139582 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
The Siege is expertly anchored in sometimes unbearable details of the assault on Leningrad; the book's sense of place and the author's great skill at pumping immediacy into the cold facts is something to behold. The Siege is one of those novels that is as redemptive as it is shattering, and they don't come much more shattering than this. But this is, finally, a novel about extremes of experience, from rampant cruelty to the redemptive power of one person's love. When the inevitable happens, 22-year-old Anna, an artist and the sole support for her young brother, invalid father, and the latter's forme
Captivated by THE SIEGE This is a very dramatic and emotional story. The reader really cares about Anna, little Kolya, and the rest of her family as they struggle to survive this horrific ordeal. I was particularly moved by the way Anna reflects on the things that she once took for granted - her father reading poetry, cloudberry jam, bread that is fresh and plentiful. The author presents the unspeakable conditions of the siege of Leningrad while always holding out the thin breath of survival in the characters and makes us count our blessings in the bargain.I highly recommen. SusieQ said A stunning novel. This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 19A stunning novel SusieQ This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 1941, directly to May 1942 -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. 1, directly to May 19A stunning novel SusieQ This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 1941, directly to May 1942 -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. "A stunning novel" according to SusieQ. This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 19A stunning novel SusieQ This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 1941, directly to May 1942 -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. 1, directly to May 19A stunning novel SusieQ This is a fine work of historical fiction. The characterizations are alive; these could be living people, and their story is a heartbreaking one. The only complaint I have with the novel is the fact that it jumps from late December 1941, directly to May 1942 -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. 2 -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. -- Uh, how did Anna, Andrei and Kolya survive during the other three & one-half months of winter? It was too abrupt a break in the flow of the work. Also, I personally thought the weakest part of the book was all that concerned Anna's romance with Andrei. I didn't feel the chemistry of the romanc. Five Stars Excellent novel---fine writing about a grim time
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. The Siege marks an exciting new phase in a brilliant career, observed Publishers Weekly in a starred review: "Dunmore has built a sizable audience but this book should lift her to another level of literary prominence." "Dunmore's novel is an intimate record of an extraordinary human disaster a moving story of personal triumph and public tragedy." -- Laura Ciolkowski, San Francisco Chronicle "In Helen Dunmore's hands, this epic subject assumes a lyrical honesty that sometimes wrenches but more often lifts the spirit." -- Frances Taliaferro, The Washington Post "Dunmore unravels the tangle of suffering, war, and base emotions to produce a story woven with love Extraordinary." -- Barbara Conaty, Library Journal (starred review). "The novel's imaginative richness," writes The Washington Post, "lies in this implicit question: In dire physical circumstances, is it possible to have an inner life? The answer seems to be that no survival is possible without one." Am
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