Nora Murray

Nora & John

The Russian Love Story

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: Narrative that is direct, candid, unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society… reduced to a 'mozho' girl mixing with foreigners, with instructions to report on them… the real story is in the simple, graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations - some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome.In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap, or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees. Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target, John Murray, a B… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Murray, John

ISBN: 978-1-912031-67-2
EAN: 9781912031672
Produktnummer: 23942614
Verlag: GB Publishing Org
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 402 S.
Masse: H14.8 cm x B20.9 cm x D3.1 cm 554 g
Abbildungen: 37 black and white illustrations
Gewicht: 554
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Nora's métier was writing and as such she felt at one with the tools of that trade. Forever writing letters and making entries in her diary, a consummate Lady of Letters, her book would allow her to express her distaste for totalitarian regimes and the love of Mother Russia.Nora was a bubbly intelligent optimist who throughout her life would find the best in people. With her indomitable Russian spirit she would never take 'no' for an answer; enabling her, in overcoming insurmountable obstacles, to escape and survive the devastations of her war torn country.