"Engrossing ... The book reads like a detective story. ... [Its] ultimate theme is about restoring memory—that most significant feature that makes humans human."
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The Washington Post
“Sergei Lebedev writes about our failure to understand the Stalinist era and to see that Russia is today a country torn into pieces. Lebedev’s characters seek ways to cut the umbilical cord with the past.”
Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature