Více o knize
"This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." ― BuzzfeedFrom debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war―the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible―not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now―regardless of her loyalties―Evgenia is too.Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story.A Junior Library Guild Selection
Nákup knihy
Daughters of a Dead Empire, Neil Moonie, Carolyn Aldworth, Marilyn Billingham, Hilary Talman
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2023
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- Titul
- Daughters of a Dead Empire
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavatel
- Square Fish
- Rok vydání
- 2023
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1250853559
- ISBN13
- 9781250853554
- Série
- Hodnocení
- 3,7 z 5
- Anotace
- "This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." ― BuzzfeedFrom debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war―the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible―not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now―regardless of her loyalties―Evgenia is too.Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story.A Junior Library Guild Selection