At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste...Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century.Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC (Audiobook): 9781662055355
Release date
Audiobook: 27 May 2021
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste...Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century.Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
© 2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC (Audiobook): 9781662055355
Release date
Audiobook: 27 May 2021
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apoorva
28 May 2023
Amazing book. One of the best I have read so farAfter a long time i have read such a big book which is perfect in every sense.These are the kind of books that make you realise why stories are so important?How does history shape the world we live in?Why breaking curse of a generation is a necessity?This kind of books changes something in you...and you don't remain the same.. maybe it's just a simple change in your thinking process...a very minimal change... I listen to the audiobook and it's very well narrated... It's 41 hours of audio..and i fly through it in 4 days... I enjoyed every minute of the story...And it's not an easy read... Read the trigger warning before going in....Happy reading 😍
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