Title: The people's act of love
First published: 2005
Description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, he says he is being chased by a cannibal. Anna, a beautiful young widow, feels something for the new arrival. Then the local shaman is found dead and suspicion an terror engulf the little town . . .
Subjects: Literature, Shamans, Christianity, Fiction, History, Novel, Fiction - General, Literary, Fiction / Literary, General, Russia (federation), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Soviet union, fiction
Places: Siberia (Russia)
Time periods: Revolution, 1917-1921, Revolution
LC classification: PR6063.E345 P46 2005