Name: The Shoemaker and His Daughter
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Author: Conor O'Clery
ISBN: 9781784163112

Type

Physical Book

Author

Conor O'Clery

Publisher

Black Swan Ireland

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9781784163112

Synopsis "The Shoemaker and His Daughter"

'O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story.' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force ... Love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing of ties, personal and ethnic. O'Clery is a gifted writer.' Luke Harding, bestselling author of CollusionThe Soviet Union, 1962. Gifted shoemaker Stanislav Suvorov is imprisoned for five years. His crime? Selling his car for a profit. On his release, social shame drives him and his family into voluntary exile in Siberia, 5,000 kilometres from home. In a climate that's unfriendly both geographically and politically, it's their chance to start again. The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin. Following the footsteps of a remarkable family Conor O'Clery knows well - he is married to the shoemaker's daughter - it's both a compelling insight into life in a secretive world at a siesmic moment in time and a powerful tale of ordinary lives shaped by extraordinary times.

Conor O'Clery

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Conor O’Clery es un periodista y escritor irlandés que trabajó para The Irish Times durante más de treinta años, y fue corresponsal extranjero en Moscú, Washington, Pekín y Nueva York. Ha sido nombrado dos veces Periodista del Año, por sus despachos desde Moscú y por sus informes sobre los atentados del 11 de Septiembre en Nueva York. Es autor de varios libros, entre ellos Melting Snow (1991), sobre la caída de la Unión Soviética; The Greening of the White House (1997), sobre la presidencia de Clinton; The Billionaire Who Wasn’t (2007), una biografía del filántropo Chuck Feeney; y Moscow, December 25, 1991 (2011), un relato del último día de la Unión Soviética.

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