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A brilliant and moving debut novel about one woman's struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors and destruction of World War II and the ensuing lifelong memories from this extraordinary experience. In this extraordinary first novel by Debra Dean the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and memory of an elderly Russian woman. Marina the woman in question was a guide at Leningrad's famous Hermitage Museum. In the late autumn of 1941 as the Luftwaffe roared over and around Leningrad she and her colleagues were set the task of taking the thousands of priceless paintings sculptures and objets d'art out of the grand galleries of the former Tsarist Palace and storing them safely against the German bombardment and seemingly inevitable invasion. The German assault threatened to destroy a large part of Europe's artistic history: if Leningrad fell to the Germans everything that was not destroyed would be looted and given to the Nazis. Marina whose own parents had disappeared during Stalin's persecution of intellectuals in the 1930s clings to her hope of becoming an art historian through her job at the Hermitage. The novel shifts between Marina's experiences at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad and her current existence as a very old lady in America whose mind has begun to fray. Debra Dean depicts with subtle skill how Marina's mind already ravaged by disease picks up some incident object or person at the wedding she's been brought to and flips back to the dreadful year-and-a-half in Leningrad which has informed her life ever since.

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