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The Madonnas of Leningrad

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories?the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild?yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind?a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .Includes an excerpt from Debra Deans The Mirrored World.

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  • "Madonnas of Leningrad"@it
  • "Madonnas of Leningrad"@pl
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  • "Marina was a guide at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum. In the autumn of 1941, a task was set of taking priceless masterpieces out of the grand galleries, and storing them safely against the German bombardment. This is a novel about one woman's struggle to preserve an artistic heritage from World War II."
  • "Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories?the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild?yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye.Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks' eventual return. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind?a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .Includes an excerpt from Debra Deans The Mirrored World."@en
  • "Marina et Dmitri forment un couple d'exilés russes installés en Amérique depuis quarante ans. Atteinte de la maladie d'Alzheimer, Marina sombre dans la confusion mais ses souvenirs sont de plus en plus vivaces. Ils la transportent à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1941, époque où elle était guide dans un musée de l'Ermitage menacé par les bombardements. Premier roman."
  • "Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on everyday life. And while this elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories, her distant past is preserved in vivid snapshots of her youth in war-torn Leningrad. In the autumn of 1941, Marina, then a guide at the Hermitage Museum, helped to take down the museum's masterpieces for safekeeping. To hold on to sanity as the Luftwaffe's bombs fell on the city, the young woman committed to memory these exquisite artworks of angels and serene madonnas. She used them to create a refuge to which she retreated to escape the world around her; a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more."@en
  • "In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad."
  • "In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "American fiction"@he
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Roman historique"
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  • "Las madonas de Leningrado"
  • "Las madonas de Leningrado"@es
  • "The madonnas of Leningrad : [a novel]"
  • "Las Madonas de Leningrado"
  • "The Madonnas of Leningrad : a novel"
  • "De madonna's van Leningrad"
  • "ha-Madonot shel Leningrad"
  • "Leningrádi madonnák"
  • "Madonny Leningradu"@pl
  • "Madonny Leningradu"
  • "愛在列寧格勒"
  • "Leningradske madone"
  • "Les madones de Leningrad : roman"
  • "The Madonnas of Leningrad"@en
  • "The Madonnas of Leningrad"
  • "Ai zai lie ning ge le"
  • "Ai zai Lieninggele"
  • "Le madonne dell'Ermitage"@it
  • "Le madonne dell'Ermitage"
  • "The madonnas of Leningrad"@en
  • "The madonnas of Leningrad"
  • "המדונות של לנינגרד"
  • "The madonnas of Leningrad : a novel"@en
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