One Night in Winter - Tapa dura

"A compelling read."--"The Independent", (London)

"What happens when you cross Donna Tartt's The Secret History with one of the scariest times in Russian history? You end up with Simon Sebag Montefiore's One Night in Winter....Based in truth, this novel will keep you biting your nails until the very end."--BooksAndWhatNot.com

"A kind of Virgin Suicides for the Soviet set, speaking to much that's dark in the human soul--but to what can redeem it, too."--Kirkus Reviews

"A compelling read."--"The Independent," (London)

Enthralling . Mr. Montefiore, an English writer hailed for his works of history and biography, is masterly at sketching scenes (passionate, melancholy or menacing) and limning characters --Wall Street Journal"

This finely written chronicle of privileged adults and children afraid for their lives in the treacherous upper reaches of Stalin s Russia in 1945 is in a league of its own. --Wall Street Journal, "Best Books of 2014""

Compulsively involving. Our fear for the children keeps up turning the pages . We follow the passions with sympathy... The knot of events tugs at a wide range of emotions rarely experienced outside an intimate tyranny. --"The Times" (London)"

A gripping thriller about private life and poetic dreams in Stalin s Russia . [A] pageturner .Whether its subject is power or love, a darkly enjoyable read--"Guardian" (London)"

This tightly written page-turner crackles with authenticity and if you are wiping away a tear by the end it won t be the icy chill of the Soviet winter that s to blame. --Caroline Jowett, "Daily Express" (London)"

Sebag s new novel draws in the reader and renders time meaningless. Brilliantly depicted. --"Jewish Chronicle""