The book’s story takes into hand Leningrad of 1941, then
into war, and it offers a remarkably reminiscences of the yesteryears, when
Leningrad was being approached by the German army. Readers would figure out
that endurance was the toughest possible streak among the victims and the civil
population. Marina is the central character, who goes along and skitters back
and forth with the gritty episodes of love, war and museum paintings.
Marina, in present time lives with her husband and
children, suffers Alzheimer – and it is through this mental disorder that she often
experiences past-life haunting memories and at the same time finding solace in
pictures of the museum. The nub of the book is that how a suffering soul can
find a respite in arts – prominently gallery pictures. The story seems
incomplete as no particular war fighting characters have shown. However, the
only feast is the writer’s immense aptitude for good language. References of
paintings are a great thing that needs to cheer up with standing ovation.
The author succeeds in painting mind-engaging pictures
through writing style and selection of words i.e. cold climatic conditions,
people lives filled with fear and abject starvation during the Second World War.
Novice readers probably won’t understand the book in first attempt.
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