| Publisher |
Corgi Books |
| Publication Year |
2009 |
| ISBN-13 |
9780552158657 |
| ISBN-10 |
0552158658 |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
618 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Dimensions (Cms) |
17.5 x 10.5 x 4 |
| Weight (grms) |
310 |
In the winter of 1916 in St Petersburg, young Sashenka plays her part in the revolution. 20 years later, and she is married to a powerful man, but she starts an affair that will have devastating consequences. Cross between "Dr. Zhivago" and "The Island". Montefiore won the 2008 Costa Award for Biography of the Year for "Young Stalin".
In the bestselling tradition of Dr Zhivago and Sophie's Choice an epic story of revolution, passion and betrayal - and one woman whose extraordinary secret lies uncovered for half a century. Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, beautiful and headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband and two children. But she's about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of a number of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the BBA History Book of the Year Prize; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and the forthcoming VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Corgi Books