The brilliant Janet Fitch has written yet another powerful, kaleidoscopic novel."- Cynthia Bond, author of Ruby Poets, artists, profiteers, soldiers, cult leaders, sadists, idealists, blood, sex, hope all piecing together in a new life, a new country. It crashes and each brilliant shard lifts and swirls. Fitch has expertly drawn the world of Russia in 1916 in flurries of white, like an exquisite snow globe, and then nudged it to the edge of a precipice, until in one jarring push, it falls. shows you a side to the Russian Revolution you've never seen before."- Sadie Trombetta, Bustle "A captivating novel starring an unforgettable heroine, The Revolution of Marina M. Janet Fitch is a wonderful writer and this might be her best book."- David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife Marina is a female Zhivago - a poet who uses her intelligence, her passion, and her love of language to interpret and survive the political turmoil around her. takes us deep inside the Russian Revolution and lets us witness it through a pair of remarkable eyes.
This is the epic, mesmerizing story of one indomitable woman's journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century. As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss, and the private heroism of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times.
Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. As her country experiences unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss."- Page of cover.īook Synopsis From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray all she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn.
About the Book "Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be upended.
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