The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.
Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ??and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ??a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ??as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives fore… (más)
"Hence in a season of calm weather though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea which brought hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." William Wordsworth
"You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us", Alexander said to Tatiana as the swell of the Kama River, flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young."
The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.
Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatianaâ??and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsâ??a secret as devastating as the war itselfâ??as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives fore
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Bajo el terror y la dificultad, se esconden la belleza y la esperanza: Tatiana ha conocido a Alexandr, un joven oficial del Ejército Rojo de misterioso y turbulento pasado. Mientras el ejército alemán y el duro invierno cercan la ciudad, los amantes se ven abocados a un amor imposible que puede desgarrar la familia de Tatiana y ser, para Alexandr, tan destructivo como la guerra. Y, mientras tanto, la corriente de la Historia arrasa a su paso el mundo tal y como ellos lo han conocido y amenaza con cambiarlos para siempre.