The Betrayal

A “magnificent, brave, tender” novel of post-WWII Russia from the author of The Siege — shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize  ( The Independent on Sunday ).   Leningrad 1952 . Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, have forged a life together in the postwar, post-siege wreckage. But they know their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin’s merciless Ministry of State Security.