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Title: STALIN'S METEOROLOGIST
ONE MAN'S UNTOLD STORY OF LOVE, LIFE AND DEATH
By: Olivier Rolin, Ros Schwartz (Trans)
Format: Hardback

List price: £16.99


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ISBN 10: 1910701009
ISBN 13: 9781910701003
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 6 July, 2017
Pages: 192
Description: One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners.
Synopsis: One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim - a celebrated meteorologist - had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners.By chance, Olivier Rolin discovered an album of the letters and beautiful drawings of the natural world which Alexey sent home to his wife, Varvara, and his four-year-old daughter, Eleonora. Intrigued by these images, Rolin became determined to uncover Alexey's story and his eventual horrifying fate.Stalin's Meteorologist is the fascinating and deeply moving account of an innocent man and his family caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia, and a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Returns: Returnable
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CRIME OF JEAN GENET (HB)
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HOLY IGNORANCE (PB)
HOTEL CRYSTAL (PB)
JAPAN (HB)
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L' ORGANISATION (PB)
LA PRISONNIERE (PB)
LASER NINJA (HB)
LE METEOROLOGUE (PB)
LORRAINE CONNECTION (PB)
LOU! (HB)
LOU! DOWN IN THE DUMP (HB)
MAIGRET (PB)
MAIGRET AND THE MINISTER (PB)
MAIGRET AND THE OLD LADY (PB)
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MAIGRET'S FIRST CASE (PB)
MAIGRET'S HOLIDAY (PB)
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PAPER TIGER (HB)
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PHENOMENE FUTUR
PORT-SOUDAN (PB)
ROMANCES (HB)
RUSSIAN POLITICS (HB)
SIBERIE
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STALIN''S METEOROLOGIST (PB)
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THE ART COLLECTORS OF RUSSIA (HB)
THE DANCER AT THE GAI-MOULIN (PB)
THE LITTLE PRINCE
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THE LITTLE PRINCE (PB)
THE MADMAN OF BERGERAC (PB)
THE MISTRESS OF SILENCE (HB)
THE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTO (CD)
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THE REST OF THEIR LIVES
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THE SHADOW PUPPET (PB)
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TIGRE EN PAPIER (PB)
TRANSLATION AS TRANSHUMANCE (PB)
UN CHASSEUR DE LIONS (PB)
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