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A Novel In Three Acts
Open Letter
November 2009
On Sale: October 31, 2009
413 pages
ISBN: 1934824100
EAN: 9781934824108
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The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst
of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag
for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband
finally emerges a changed man, but then Irina is forced to
witness the worst of capitalism, as her daughter Oksana
disappears into the newly rapacious consumer society and she
loses her husband again, this time to greed and a lust for
power. In the West, Jennifer Moore, the scion of
blue-blooded American wealth, takes a high-ranking job at
the International Monetary Fund, where she hopes to bring
the tough love of the free market economy to the
unenlightened masses the world over. But she also has to
deal with a philandering husband, Jack Wells, whose
pharmaceutical company is a market wonder built on a house
of cards, and her sister Allison, a free-spirited
anti-globalization activist. Jorge Volpi's Season of Ash
puts a human face on earth-shaking events of the late
twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the collapse of Soviet communism and the rise
of the Russian oligarchs, the cascading collapsing of
developing economies, and the near-miraculous scientific
advances of the Human Genome Project. A scientific
investigation, a journalistic exposé, a detective novel, and
a dark love story, Season of Ash is a thrilling exploration
of greed and disillusionment, and a clear-eyed examination
of the passions that rule our lives and make history.
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