num_pages: 391
description: Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russian Revolution, The People’s Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless regiment, and a mystical separatist Christian sect. When a mysterious, charismatic stranger trudges into their snowy village with a frighteningly outlandish story to tell, its balance is shaken to the core.
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 U.S.