{"product_id":"the-silence-that-remains-hardcover","title":"The Silence that Remains - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe famine that decimated Annushka's village officially never happened. Since she was a child, she's kept quiet about what she saw in an implicit bargain with the Soviet regime: behave, and you might live to see your parents again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe survives by keeping her head down and cultivating the image of a loyal, if not terribly bright, citizen. When the Nazi invasion of Ukraine forces her to flee east, however, she meets people as disillusioned as herself: Diana, a former ballerina pressed into serving as a concubine for a powerful man; and Viktor, a haunted veteran returning from imprisonment in a labor camp. With them, she finally feels free to speak the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is Stalin's Russia, and anyone can betray her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Silence that Remains is a sweeping historical epic that takes readers from Paris to the far reaches of Siberia, and from the battlefields of World War I to the end of the gulag system. But it is also a deep exploration of what decent people do when prosperity, and even survival, depend on falling in line behind one of history's most brutal dictators and his devoted enforcers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101901951199,"sku":"9781968761097","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/gK4qJvXYds9781968761097.webp?v=1781075855","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-silence-that-remains-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}