The family suffers as Hitler’s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents.
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the bestselling author of Tully, Red Leaves and Eleven Hours.
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