The People's Act of Love

“ Doctor Zhivago  . . . Anna Karenina  . . . A Hero of Our Time  . . . The People’s Act of Love will remind you of all these books . . . Magnificent” ( The Washington Post Book World ).   Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russian Revolution, The People’s Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son