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In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster the Soviet Union begins to collapse changing forever the lives of a nine-year old child prodigy, his aunt, a leading surgeon, and a teenage boy in a rural village. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices sil...
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Harper Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: |
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster the Soviet Union begins to collapse changing forever the lives of a nine-year old child prodigy, his aunt, a leading surgeon, and a teenage boy in a rural village. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work to avoid facing his failed marriage. And in a rural village in Belarus, a teenage boy wakes u |
| Item Description: | Originally published in Great Britain, in 2014, by Penguin Group, Penguin Books, Ltd. --Title page verso. Reprinted in paperback in the U.S. in 2014 with a brief biography and an essay by the author: The Empty City. |
| Carrier Form: | 418 pages, 34 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780062246875 (pbk.) 0062246879 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | PR6113 |
| CLC: | I512.45 |
| Call Number: | I512.45/M157 |