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The House of Special Purpose: A Novel by the Author of the Heart's Invisible Furies

The House of Special Purpose: A Novel by the Author of the Heart's Invisible Furies

Boyne, John

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1590515986
ISBN13: 9781590515983
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: Apr 2 2013
Pages: 478
Weight: 1.06
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanov family.

Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days.

Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him.

As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg, to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century--a time of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.

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