Russka : the novel of Russia / Edward Rutherfurd.
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TextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 2005.Edition: 1st trade pbk. edDescription: 945 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0345479351
- 9780345479358
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Main Library | Fiction | Rutherfurd, Edward | Available | 33111006189563 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * " Impressive . . . Rutherford has indeed embraced all of Russia."-- The Washington Post Book World
Here, Edward Rutherfurd turns his remarkable talents to a vast canvas: Russia. Spanning 1,800 years of its history, people, politics, and culture, Rutherford's grand saa is as multifaceted as Russia itself: harsh yet exotic, proud yet fearful of enemeies, steeped in ancient superstitions but always seeking to make its mark on the emerging world. In Russka , Rutherford transforms the epic of a great civilization into a human story of flesh and blood, boldness and action, chronicling the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shapin the destiny of their land.
" Rutherford's Russka succeeds. . . . [He] can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat."-- San Francisco Chronicle
The triumphs, tragedies, passions, and struggles of successive generations of four families are shaped by the turbulent events and forces of Russian history, from ancient times to the twentieth century. Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful Sarum: The Novel of England, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land.