The shoemaker and his daughter
O'Clery, Conor2018
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Soviet Union, 1962. Shoemaker Stanislav Suvorov is imprisoned for five years. His crime? Selling his car for a profit, contravening the Kremlin's strict laws of speculation. Laws which, 30 years later, his daughter Zhanna helps to unravel. On his release from prison, social shame drives Stanislav to voluntary exile in Siberia, moving his family from a relatively comfortable, continental life in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, to frigid, farthest-flung Krasnoyarsk. For some, it is the capital of the gulag. For others, it is the chance to start over again. These are the last days of a Soviet Union in which the Communist Party and KGB desperately cling to power, in which foreigners are unwelcome and travel abroad is restricted, where the queues for bread are daily and debilitating and where expressing views in favour of democracy and human rights can get you imprisoned or sent into exile.
Main title:
The shoemaker and his daughter / Conor O'Clery.
Author:
O'Clery, Conor, author
Imprint:
Dublin : Doubleday Ireland, 2018.
Collation:
357 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781781620434 (hbk)9781473544789 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
947'.085'092947.08509920SUV
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2212796
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