HarperCollins
August 2009
On Sale: August 12, 2009
Featuring: Tatiana Metanova; Dasha Metanova; Alexander
704 pages ISBN: 006185414X EAN: 9780061854149 Paperback Add to Wish List
The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.
Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaβand she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsβa secret as devastating as the war itselfβas the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.
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