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A Train to Moscow

Elena Gorokhova
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Lake Union Publishing • 2022

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition.In a... a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.
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Som čitateľ

Vlak do Moskvy: Jedna cesta vlakom Saši zmení život. Podarí sa jej splniť si sen a stane sa známou ruskou herečkou?

Sumár recenzie
Recenzia na knihu "Vlak do Moskvy: Jedna cesta vlakom" na somcitatel.blogspot.com je pozitívna a obsahuje pozoruhodné hodnotenie knihy. Recenzent zdieľa svoje dojmy z čítania a zdôrazňuje, že kniha je dobre napísaná, s výbornými postavami a zaujímavým dejom. Recenzia vyjadruje obdiv k spôsobu, akým autor vytvoril napätie a držal čitateľa napätého po celý čas. Nakoniec, recenzent uvádza, že kniha je jednoznačne odporúčaná pre milovníkov napínavých románov.

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Vlak do Moskvy (Recenzia)

Sumár recenzie
Recenzia sa zameriava na knihu s pútavým príbehom a zaujímavými postavami. Recenzentka sa veľmi teší na pokračovanie. Kniha je dobre napísaná a zasahuje viacero tém, vrátane lásky, priateľstva a dobrodružstva. Recenzentka oceňuje autorov štýl písania a schopnosť vytvoriť detailné obrazy. Kniha prináša emócie a čitateľa vtiahne do deja. Kritiku získava iba pre miestami slabší tempo a niektoré nepotrebne rozvláčne pasáže. Celkovo je však recenzia pozitívna a odporúča sa knihu pre ľudí, ktorí majú radi napínavé príbehy. "Kniha Vlak do Moskvy ma okamžite zaujala svojím fascinujúcim príbehom a výraznými postavami."

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition.

In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.

Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.