The Big Green Tent - by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Paperback)

The Big Green Tent is a sweeping epic that delves into the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience through the eyes of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s.

With rich love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, this novel offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the possibilities for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB.

Each of the central characters seeks to transcend an oppressive regime through art, love of Russian literature, and activism, ultimately discovering light in dark times.

As grand, solid, and impressively all-encompassing as its title implies, The Big Green Tent is a work consumed with politics, love, and belief that will captivate readers from the very first page.