{"product_id":"9780006513223","title":"The Bronze Horseman","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Simons, Paullina \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/04\/2001,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 656 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780006513223,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The family suffers as Hitler’s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana’s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Confronted on the one hand by Hitler’s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697789239340,"sku":"9780006513223","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780006513223.jpg?v=1722603327","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780006513223","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}