<![CDATA[The Red Scarf]]>

false <![CDATA[The Red Scarf]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256004749m/2309409.jpg 2309409 6 The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily. After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, she’s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refuge—she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He’s everything she has ever wanted—but he belongs to Anna. After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family—even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear… 2315825 24 6 2008 The Red Scarf total:627|5:150|4:236|3:171|2:58|1:12| 627 2335 1157 162 4 4 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 14:41:58 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 03:41:47 -0800 2008
Right. It turned out to b...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 14:58:16 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 10:24:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 11:01:49 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 11:11:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 11:34:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 11:48:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 18:34:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 18:41:35 -0800 2009
I didn't know much about Russia in the 1930s or even anything ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 15:28:06 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 15:30:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 02:06:27 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 02:25:51 -0800 2009 1
I liked it! I will keep an eye open for the author, she writes we...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 20 14:17:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 14:20:10 -0700 2009
Seriously though, this story is epic in scope and spans the fall of tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and then the rise of the Communist state. First and foremost it is the tale of...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:50:40 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 19:25:20 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 12:50:26 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 12:55:55 -0800 2008
The setting is a Russian labor camp in 1933; thousands of women have been forced into labor camps b/c they have not conformed to communist beliefs. The 2 main characters sofia & anna are struggling to survive. ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 09:40:16 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 10:20:11 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 18:51:45 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 18:58:11 -0700 2009
The two main characters, Sofia & Anna. What an inspiration for the meaning of loyalty, friendship & promises.

To try & understa...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 18 18:18:56 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 18:20:05 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 18 02:58:18 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:06:34 -0800 2009 Anna is dying in the work camp and Sofia, her good friend, escapes to find the on...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 07:16:03 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 04:51:38 -0700 2009
It is based in Communist Russia in 1933 and it intruduce...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 16 19:46:48 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:18:12 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 09:32:51 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 19:29:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 10:28:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 10:37:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 20 11:47:46 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 24 10:42:39 -0800 2009 Wed May 20 11:47:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 06:34:10 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 06:50:28 -0700 2008
Admittedly, there was not a lot of "action" initially in the book, but the development of the relationshi...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2309409