num_pages: 391
description: In the outer reaches of a country recently torn apart by civil war lives a small Christian sect and its enigmatic leader, Balashov. Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, restless photographer, is raising her young son by herself amid this brutal landscape. Stationed nearby is a company of Czech soldiers, desperate to get home but on the losing side of the recent conflict. Each soldier lives in a fragile co-existence and a troubling uncertainty prevails. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost prison camp. Immediately apprehended, he is brought before Captain Matula, the Czech company's megalomaniac commander. But the stranger's appearance has caught the attention of others, including that of Anna Petrovna. And when a local shaman is found murdered, suspicion and terror engulf this village. To be published in twenty countries, The People's Act of Love is quite simply magnificent storytelling and it promises to be an auspicious literary event.
language: English
title: The People's Act of Love
titlecomplete: The People's Act of Love
genres: Historical, 21st Century, Russia, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3099
places: Soviet Union, Russia, Yazyk
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Canongate