![]() ![]() It is 1952 and they live in Joseph Stalin's repressive regime where it is prudent not to draw attention to yourself.Īndrei unwittingly takes on the case of a young boy, Gorya, who has a cancerous tumour in his leg. Anna and Andrei marry and live in the city where she is a nursery-school teacher and he is a paediatrician at the local hospital. The first, The Siege was published in 2001 and is set in Leningrad during the siege.Īnna, Andrei and Kolya have survived the siege of Leningrad. ![]() The Betrayal is the second of a two-book series. The book was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Orwell Prize. It is set in Leningrad in 1952, ten years after the Siege of Leningrad, and takes place during political repression in the Soviet Union and the plot against doctors in the Stalin era. The Betrayal is a 2010 historical novel by English writer Helen Dunmore. ![]()
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