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Called elegantly, starkly beautiful by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dun s masterpiece Her canvas is monumental the Nazis 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand but her focus is heartrendingly intimate One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty two year old Anna Though she dreams of an artist s life, she must instead forage for food in the ever desperate city and watch her little brother grow cruelly thin Their father, a blacklisted writer who once advocated a robust life of the mind, withers in spirit and body At such brutal times everything is tested And yet Dun s inspiring story shows that even then, the triumph of the human heart is that love need not fall away. Best Download The Siege Author Helen Dunmore For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The novel revolves around five interwoven lives during the war when Leningrad was completely surrounded by the Germans Winter came and there was no food or coal, it was a brutal winter and one half of the population of the city perished.There are fantastic descriptions of what the city looked and felt like The heroism of the people who were described was incredible There is so much history to be learned for this book, love, determination, heroism, redemption, survival, it s all there.Another The novel revolves around five interwoven lives during the war when Leningrad was completely surrounded by the Germans Winter came and there was no food or coal, it was a brutal winter and one half of the population of the city perished.There are fantastic descriptions of what the city looked and felt like The heroism of the people who were described was incredible There is s...First and foremost, I d describe The Siege as a very claustrophobic novel It takes place in Stalingrad during the German assault but I rarely had a sense of a city in this book It often felt like the characters were living in virtual isolation in the midst of some dystopian wasteland It always felt the world was far removed When a character left the apartment I saw not city streets but a kind of anonymous rural landscape I was never quite convinced the author could see Stalingrad not once First and foremost, I d describe The Siege as a very claustrophobic novel It takes place in Stalingrad during the German assault but I rarely had a sense of a city in this book It often felt like the characters were living in virtual isolation in the midst of some dystopian wasteland It always felt the world was far removed When a character left the apartment I saw not city streets but a kind of anonymous rural landscape I was never quite convinced the author could see Stalingrad not once did she make me see it The novel s drama is almost entirely focused on the fight against starvation and the cold I found the author went overboard with the effects of starvation as if determined to catalogue every single symptom It was perhaps realistic but it wasn t very successful in terms of dramatic ten...This turned out to be a deeply absorbing and fascinating story about the seige of Lenigrad It describes in detail the terrible trauma of living through such an ordeal when half the population of the city died from starvation and the cold, and their bodies were buried in mass graves In The Siege we follow the day to day lives of a family living at the point of starvation and surviving on things such as wallpaper paste and tea made from water and a teaspoon of honey At one point they eat a This turned out to be a deeply absorbing and fascinating story about the seig...Waiting for SpringHelen Dun s marvelous novel surely her best begins with Spring in 1941 And then, just when it seemed as if summer would forget about Leningrad this year, everything changed Ice broke loose from the compacted mass around the Strelka Seagulls preened on the floes as the current swept them under bridges, and down the widening Neva to the sea. It will end with Spring a year later, but by that time a large part of the Leningrad population will have died of cold or Waiting for SpringHelen Dun s marvelous novel surely her best begins with Spring in 1941 And then, just when it seemed as if summer would forget about Leningrad this year, everything changed Ice broke loose from the compacted mass around the Strelka Seagulls preened on the floes as the current swept them under bridges, and down the widening Neva to the sea. It will end with Spring a year later, but by that time a large part of the Leningrad population will have died of cold or malnutrition, as the German armies hold the city in a relentless siege.Dun begins gently, almost lyrically, in a small...The Fuehrer has decided to have Leningrad wiped from the face of the earth Such a harrowing read as Dun gives us an insight into what it was like to live through the first winter of the siege of Leningrad In another author s hands this might have been lush with romantic melodrama, but Dun keeps it clean and cold, allowing the details to speak for themselves Kolya s childish whining as he cannot understand why he can t have another spoonful of precious hoarded jam the quiet yetThe Fuehrer has decided to have Leningrad wiped from the face of the earth Such a harrowing read as Dun gives us an insight into what it was like to live through the first winter of the siege of Leningrad In ano...As I read this book on my couch after dinner, drinking a beer and enjoying the warm summer night, I found myself tensing against a monstrous cold that had become so physical that I couldn t unfeel it despite my knowledge that it was only words on paper.In The Siege, Dun weaves together the huge and small stories of the siege of Leningrad in a way that reminded me of The Grapes of Wra...The high up ones start things, but it s us who have to finish them offThe bottom line of all wars I have always liked reading novels reflecting the war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people s lives This is a story celebrating love, life and survival through the second world war, World War II.First, as a rookie reader in history, let s start with some information to backup our historic background information.https en.wikipedia.org wiki World_WAnd knowabout the siege ofThe high up ones start things, but it s us who have to finish them offThe bottom line of all wars I have always liked reading novels reflecting the war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people s lives This is a story celebrating love, life and survival through the second world war, World War II.First, as a rookie reader in history, l...Story set immediately before and during the first year of the Siege of Leningrad it focuses around 5 characters a dissident writer Mikhail, his nursery school teacher daughter Anna, his son Kolya as his Doctor wife the strong willed Vera died in childbirth, Anna effectively is Kolya s mother and Marina a reclusive and discredited artist friend of Mikhail, who comes to live with them after the siege and who it becomes clear was a once lover of Mikhail and Andrei a Doctor who works on Story set immediately before and during the first year of the Siege of Leningrad it focuses around 5 characters a dissident writer Mikhail, his nursery school teacher daughter Anna, his son Kolya as his Doctor wife the strong willed Vera died in childbirth, Anna effectively is Kolya s mother and Marina a reclusive and discredited artist friend of Mikhail, who comes to live with them after the siege and who it becomes clear was a once lover of Mikhail and Andrei a Doctor who works on a volunteer force with Mikhail, visits Anna to tell her he is wounded but OK and then gradually becomes her lover and eventually moves into their appartment Another two characters literally in a fable from the Napoleonic attack on Russia told by her father and figuratively throughout are hunger and the winter.The book is mainly in the present tense wh...Excellent historical novel, which opens in 1941 Leningrad at the precipice of the German invasion, is the story of Anna, an artist and her family and their survival in the siege Moving Terrific read for anyone interested ...Odd to be reading this book when the radio is reporting women and children starving in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya We never learn the lessons of history.This book tells the story of another siege That of Leningrad in 1941 It was encircled by the invading German army for an incredible three years during the second world war The book tells the story of the Levin family Principally 23 year old Anna, who has to care for her wounded and enfeebled father Mikhail, and her 5 year old brother Odd to be reading this book when the radio is reporting women and children starving in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya We never learn the lessons of history.This book tells the story of another siege That of Leningrad in 1941 It was encircled by the invading German army for an incredible three years during the second world war The book tells the ...

The Siege
  • English
  • 13 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • 0802139582
  • Helen Dunmore
  • The Siege