"A compelling story of the ethnic cleansing of Christian communities caught in the crossfire of the Middle East at war. A[n] ... urgent and passionate epistle to the West to see an ongoing disaster."
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Kirkus Reviews
“A monomaniacal meditation on memory and forgetting … Lebedev’s magnificent novel has the potency to become a mirror and a wake-up call to a Russia that is blind to history.”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung