Review: Fascinating
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
This book gives the reader a privileged and interesting insight into Russian life for a young girl in the early 1990s.As the reader follows Marina's story filled with her hopes and dreams of a promising future, we learn of the uncertainty of every day life for Russians in those days and inevitably make comparisons with our own lives.The description of characters was realistic and believable and the portrait of family life and friendships endearing.There is a perfect blend of factual history along with the fictional lives of the characters.