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Burying the Sun
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List Price: $15.99
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ISBN Number: 60541121
Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Gloria Whelen
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| This companion book to Angel on the Square (2001) and The Impossible Journey (2003) continues the story of a Russian family struggling for survival in troubled times. The narrator is 15-year-old Georgi, the year is 1941, and the setting is Leningrad, where German forces are bombing and blockading the city. Georgi's sister, Marya, a Hermitage employee, escapes with museum artwork for safe keeping; their mother goes to the front as a nurse. Georgi and his friends remain to cope with the relentless cold, their debilitating hunger, and the death and destruction around them. Despite the first-person narration, the story is a bit reserved, refusing to milk the characters' suffering for an easy emotional response. Instead, Whelan creates a memorable, perhaps indelible, picture of a particular time and place. A recurring theme is the power of art, represented by the paintings and by the symphony written by Shostakovich for his imperiled city. |
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