{"product_id":"silence-that-remains-book-meg-wingerter-9781968761097","title":"The Silence that Remains","description":"The famine that decimated Annushka's village officially never happened. Since she was a child, she's kept quiet about what she saw in an implicit bargain with the Soviet regime: behave, and you might live to see your parents again.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe survives by keeping her head down and cultivating the image of a loyal, if not terribly bright, citizen. When the Nazi invasion of Ukraine forces her to flee east, however, she meets people as disillusioned as herself: Diana, a former ballerina pressed into serving as a concubine for a powerful man; and Viktor, a haunted veteran returning from imprisonment in a labor camp. With them, she finally feels free to speak the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is Stalin's Russia, and anyone can betray her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Silence that Remains is a sweeping historical epic that takes readers from Paris to the far reaches of Siberia, and from the battlefields of World War I to the end of the gulag system. But it is also a deep exploration of what decent people do when prosperity, and even survival, depend on falling in line behind one of history's most brutal dictators and his devoted enforcers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53010687197457,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53010687492369,"sku":"NIN9781968761097","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781968761097.jpg?v=1768002112","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/silence-that-remains-book-meg-wingerter-9781968761097","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}