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The bronze horseman. (Bronze horseman trilogy, #1.) : a novel by Simons, Paullina is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly Set in her native St. Petersburg, Russia, Simons's latest thick novel (after Tully, etc.) focuses on a WWII love affair. As the story opens, Tatiana, the youngest member of the Metanova family, is just 17; she still shares a bed with her older sister, Dasha. Not long after the country goes to war with Germany, Tatiana meets Alexander, a soldier, and sparks fly. It turns out, however, that Alexander is the same soldier Dasha has been crowing about. Possessed of a strong sense of family loyalty, and living under conditions that permit no privacy, Tatiana refuses to interfere with her sister's happiness, but the attraction between Tatiana and Alexander proves too powerful. Complicating matters, another soldier, Dimitri, has information that could destroy Alexander, and Dimitri likes Tatiana, too. In order to protect both Dasha's feelings and Alexander's life, the star-crossed lovers become part of a deceptive quadrangle as war intensifies around them. Taking her title from a tragic poem by Alexandr Pushkin, Simons skillfully highlights the ironies of the socialist utopia. Despite the novel's sprawling length and its seemingly epic scope, the nearly single-minde

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Simons, Paullina
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061854149
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance
Rating
4.33 / 5 (4,202 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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