Red Scarf, The
A 'The Russian Concubine' dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily. After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, she s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refuge she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He s everything she has ever wanted but he belongs to Anna. After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger
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