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Despite the Falling Snow (Paperback)

by Shamim Sarif (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review; New Ed edition (7 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755308689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755308682
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 256,117 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the States. For forty years, he has buried the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late wife, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover what really happened to Katya so long ago. The novel's journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow reveals a world of secrets and treachery. Shamim Sarif's elegant writing delicately evokes the intensity of passionate love and tragic violence.


About the Author

Shamim Sarif lives in London with her partner Hanan and their two children. She was born in the UK, and is of South African and Indian descent. This heritage formed the starting point for her first novel, The World Unseen, which won a Betty Trask Award and the Pendleton May First Novel Award.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Even I cried when I read it., 27 April 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: Despite the Falling Snow (Hardcover)
I'm not very good with novels but once I hit
the chapter 'Moscow' Iread it right to the end
without stopping except to get boxes of tissues.
Shamim's second novel Despite the Falling Snow is already in the shops; itis SO exciting. Even I cried when I read it.
The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's
Powerful second novel begins in present day Boston and travels back to thesnowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow to uncover a hidden world ofpassion and betrayal, secrets and treachery.
Extract from current Waterstones Books Quarterly:
"a perfectly balanced novel of love and tragedy...Despite the Falling
Snow is a delicate piece of writing...Sarif draws with great clarity aworld completely alien to most Westerners...The beauty of the streets of Moscow, the bejewelled architecture of the metro stations, is all amajestic backdrop to a play of mistrust and deception where friends, eventhe best of friends, can turn against each other in fear."
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning book of passion and betrayal..., 29 April 2004
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This review is from: Despite the Falling Snow (Hardcover)
I just loved this book! Real, three-dimensional passionate characters youcan really believe in, and a stunning plot with a slow-burn but has youcrying by the end. I loved the author's first novel, The World Unseen, too- a super talented writer, who uses interesting political backdrops totell intimate and moving stories.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully told tale of the fight for life and love, 13 Jan 2006
By Myrtle "featherandquill" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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The plot shifts from present day America, back to the Soviet Union of the fifties. I found the American storyline to be rather a facade in cardboard, but the Russian plotline is quite thrilling. What a shame that the whole book did not take place there. The Russian characters were fully rounded and desperately plausible. The need to attempt to live in a society based on fear and brutality and the consequent moral and ethical dilemmas faced was brilliantly illuminated. The daily, claustrophobic burden of surveillance was real. Although I have never been to Russia I had a marvelous sense of place from the book. I too have trodden the snowy Moscow streets and survived, for that alone I thank Shamin Sarif.
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