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Informationen zum Autor Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of the acclaimed novels of his Moscow Trilogy - Sashenka ! Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter! which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize: the novels are published in 27 languages. Montefiore is also the author of prize-winning bestselling history books now in 48 languages! including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar ! Jerusalem: The Biography and The Romanovs . For more information see: www.simonsebagmontefiore.com or follow him on Twitter: @simonmontefiore. Klappentext Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler! shots ring out. On a nearby bridge! a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers! but the children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow. Is it murder? A suicide pact? "A master storyteller when writing as a historian, Sebag Montefiore's fiction is just as compelling in this thriller set in Stalin's Moscow." GQ "A novel full of passion, conspiracy, hope, despair, suffering and redemption... transcends the boundaries of genre, being at once thriller and political drama, horror and romance. His ability to paint the tyrannical Stalin in such a way as to make the reader quake with fear is matched by his talent for creating truly heartbreaking characters: the children who innocently find themselves...behind the dank walls of the dreaded Lubyanka prison; their parents, torn between the need to be seen as loyal Bolsheviks and the love they have for their families... One Night in Winter is a gripping read and must surely be one of the best novels of 2013." Steve Emmett, NY JOURNAL OF BOOKS Zusammenfassung If your children were forced to testify against you! what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler! shots ring out. On a nearby bridge! a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers! but the children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow. Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state? Directed by Stalin himself! an investigation begins as children are arrested and forced to testify against their friends - and their parents. This terrifying witch-hunt soon unveils illicit love affairs and family secrets in a hidden world where the smallest mistakes will be punished with death. ...
