num_pages: 400
description: Praised in over a dozen countries around the world, longlisted for the Man BookerPrize, named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and distinguished as a nationalbestseller, The People’s Act of Love has been compared to the works of such Russianmasters as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In a Siberian town caught between a zealouscult and bullying soldiers, a stranger named Samarin arrives. Claiming to bean escapee from an isolated prison camp, pursued in his flight by a bloodthirstycannibal, he unleashes a storm of suspicion and terror. The People’s Act of Love is an epic drama of desire and sacrifice, full of hot blood and magnetic characters,played out against one of the most remote landscapes on earth.
language: English
title: The People's Act Of Love
titlecomplete: The People's Act Of Love
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, 21st Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia
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: HarperCollins Canada