Summary and reviews of The Siege by Helen Dunmore.
Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past.Helen Dunmore returns to the Soviet Union, whose history she so powerfully evoked in her earlier best-seller The Siege. A decade later, the cold and starvation of Leningrad has been replaced with.Bestselling author Helen Dunmore's third novel, A Spell of Winter won the 1996 Orange Prize. Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents.
The novels of Helen Dunmore range in form and tone from the gothic melodrama A Spell of Winter (1995), which won England’s Orange Prize, to the realistic work The Siege (2001), set in wartime.The Siege by Helen Dunmore Chapter 10 Summary Chapter 10 begins with us still being told in Andrei’s point of view. Andrei finds himself imagining his Petersburg apartment as he is alone leading to his apartment for the days have been turned upside down.
Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies. In 1952 Leningrad, Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar.
