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It is Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year and Day of Judgement - in Moscow during the Stalinist purges of 1936. In the Lubyanka secret police prison, senior investigator Grisha Shwartzman masterfully pursues the rigorous logic and obsessive legalism of the Soviet witch-hunt. Facing an extraordinary prisoner, Grisha realizes that the Soviet system he has faithfully served is murderously corrupt and that he himself will be the next victim - but not an innocent one. In despair, he flees to his home, where his deranged wife and an unexpected Rosh Hashanah letter from his father-in-law, the…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2014Abbeville Press, Incorporated · 256 pages · 9781283261432
- Other · English · 2011Abbeville Press, Incorporated · 9780789260062
- Other · English · 1998Abbeville Press · 254 pages · 9780789203977
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