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'An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate' Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for The Safe House
'A captivating sweep of a novel about love, resilience and impossible choices... I loved it!' Christina Lamb, chief foreign…
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No Country for Love is a remarkable, layered novel, part history, part murder mystery but is most strikingly powerful for conveying complex human emotions and the choices one woman made to survive, and ensure the survival of her children, during a blood-soaked period of twentieth-century Ukrainian history. The author, Yaroslav Trofimov, was born in Ukraine and the novel, based on his grandmother’s life, takes place, as he said, “in Ukraine at a time it was the deadliest place on Earth.”
It is meticulously researched, bringing to life the hope and idealism of the early years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist…
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