<![CDATA[The People's Act of Love: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The People's Act of Love: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171657480m/112343.jpg 112343 14 <div>In a remote Siberian village, amid a lawless, unforgiving landscape, lives Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, willfully self-reliant widowed mother. A mystical, separatist Christian sect, a stranded regiment of restless Czech soldiers, and an eerie local shaman live nearby, all struggling against the elements and great social upheaval to maintain a fragile coexistence.<br>Out of the woods trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia’s northernmost prison camp, with a terrifyingly outlandish story to tell about his journey. Immediately apprehended, he is brought before the Czech regiment’s megalomaniac, Captain Matula. But the stranger’s appearance has caught the attention of others, including Anna Petrovna’s.<br>This stranger, his bizarre story—if it is to be believed—and the apparent murder of the local shaman quickly become a flashpoint for this village: temperatures rise, alliances shift, and betrayals emerge. Written with a commanding historical authority and remarkable grace, <i>The People’s Act of Love</i> is an epic of desire and sacrifice that leaves the reader utterly mesmerized through to the final heart-pounding pages.</div> 370596 2005 The People's Act of Love: A Novel total:444|5:99|4:160|3:112|2:48|1:25| 444 1592 753 125 5 2 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 09:58:55 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 11:18:14 -0700 2009
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"He's not a destroyer; he is destruction, leaving these good people who remain to build a better world on the ruins. What looks like an act of evil to a single person is the people's act of love to its future ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 15:58:45 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:11:36 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 06 13:34:53 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 13:35:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 11:09:51 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 00:10:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 06:51:39 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 06:52:22 -0800 2008 I started it, put it down, gritted my teeth and picked it up again, and slowly became engro...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:38:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:18 -0800 2009 That most critics compared this intellectual epic novel to those by the Russian Greats__Tolstoy and Dostoevsky__attests to its power. A study of fanaticism and faith, People's Act draws a broad canvas of human history in its convincing depictions of battle, prison life, politics, romance, and revolu...

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The story was, at times, too far out for me. Then again, I've read enough non-fiction to know that there are few things "too far out" when it comes to the extre...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 31 12:28:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 12:29:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 04 12:24:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 13:32:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Mar 03 07:23:56 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:24:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 22 06:35:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 06:36:35 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 06:46:42 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 07:13:39 -0700 2008
A few pages in and I was wondering why anyone should feel the need to rewrite Doctor Zhivago.

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