Exiled ballerina Lena Sergeyevna lies in hospital in New York, dying of cancer.
Desperate to reconcile with her estranged daughter, she begins to reveal the
truth about her flight from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster
where her husband Yuri, a nuclear physicist, disappeared while performing
top-secret research. We discover that Lena’s former life involved deep compromises for which she has paid a heavy price in shame and self-loathing. What
happened to Yuri, was he somehow involved in the ‘accident’, and what made
Lena leave the ussr and take up exotic dancing in the us? Set in a geopolitical
hotspot, Ukraine, this intelligent memoir–thriller explores the struggle for
self-expression, the triumph of truth over deception, and the impact on the
human psyche of personal and global catastrophe.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian Sutherland
EAN: 9780639725208
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WEIGHT: 458 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vindigo Press
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GENRE: FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Book Themes:
Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Historical fiction