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The acclaimed novelist and prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic, influenced by a true storyline that unfolds in Stalin's Russia during the bleak days and nights after World Battle II. A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet Union's triumph over Hitler when gunshots diamond ring out though the city's crowded roadways. In the shadow of the Kremlin, a teenage youngster and girl are found inactive. But this is no regular tragedy, because these are no ordinary teenagers. As the children of high-ranking Soviet representatives, they inhabit a rarefied world that revolves around the exclusive Josef Stalin Commune College 801. The school, which Stalin's own children went to, is an enclave of privilege - but, as the fatalities reveal, the one which hides a wealth of secrets. Were these fatalities a major accident, a suicide pact...or murder? Sure that a deeper conspiracy is afoot, Stalin launches a ruthless inspection. In what involves be known as the Children's Circumstance, youths from around Moscow are arrested by status security services and brought to the infamous interrogation rooms of the Lubyanka, where these are obligated to testify against their friends and their own families. On the list of casualties of these betrayals are two pairs of illicit lovers, who find themselves trapped at the center of Stalin's witch hunt. As the Children's Circumstance follows its more and more terrifying course, these couples discover that the decision to follow one's heart comes at an awful price. A haunting evocation of a period and place in which the status colluded to corrupt and destroy every desire, One Night in Winter is infused with the eager intrigue of an politics thriller. The eminent historian Simon Sebag Montefiore weaves simple fact and fiction into a richly engaging saga of sacrifice and success, populated by real results from the past. But within the darkness shines a deeply individual love story, the one which transcends its point in time as it masterfully explores our capacity for devotion and forgiveness.
