| Record Number |
862746 |
| ISBN |
9780062910950 (paperback) |
| Author |
Adams, Alina author. |
| Title |
The nesting dolls : a novel / Alina Adams. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] |
| ©2020 |
| Pagination etc. |
365 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Summary Note |
"Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study mathematics. But the Soviets do not allow Jewish students - even those as brilliant as Natasha - to attend an institute as prestigious as Odessa University. With her hopes for the future dashed, Natasha must find a new purpose - one that leads her into the path of a dangerous young man... Brighton Beach, 2019. Zoe Venakovsky, known to her family as Zoya, has worked hard to leave the suffocating streets and small minds of Brighton Beach behind her - only to find that what she's tried to outrun might just hold her true happiness. Moving from a Siberian gulag to the underground world of Soviet refuseniks to oceanside Brooklyn, The Nesting Dolls is a heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive story of circumstance, choice, and consequence - and three dynamic unforgettable women, all who will face hardships that force them to compromise their dreams as they fight to fulfil their destinies."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Women -- Fiction |
| Jewish women -- Fiction |
| Families -- Fiction |
| Jews, Russian -- United States -- Fiction |
| Life change events -- Fiction |
| Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction |
| Siberia (Russia) -- Fiction |
| Odesa (Ukraine) -- Fiction |
| Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F ADAM |
