num_pages: 192
description: When a young writer arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War. He sets out to win her affections, but the better he thinks he understands her the more she surprises him.
language: English
title: The Woman Who Waited
titlecomplete: The Woman Who Waited
genres: France, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1077
places: Mirnoe
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Geoffrey Strachan
publisher: Sceptre