A Train to Moscow: A Novel
Written by Elena Gorokhova
Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition.
In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.
Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well.
Elena Gorokhova
Elena Gorokhova was born and raised in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, Russia. After graduating from Leningrad University, she moved to the United States, carrying one suitcase with twenty kilograms of what used to be her life. Elena is the author of two memoirs: A Mountain of Crumbs and Russian Tattoo. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Daily Beast, New Jersey Monthly, and the Daily Telegraph, as well as on NPR and BBC Radio and in a number of literary magazines. A Train to Moscow is Elena’s first novel. She lives and teaches in New Jersey. For more information, visit www.elenagorokhova.com.
Related to A Train to Moscow
Related audiobooks
Daughters of the Night Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl in the Triangle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girl with the Golden Scissors: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Memory Keeper of Kyiv: A powerful, important historical novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Longest Echo: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Paris Deception Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Red Mistress: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost English Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secrets We Left Behind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girl From Saint Petersburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Goodnight from Paris: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Snow Gypsy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Porcelain Maker: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silver Music Box Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Stealers: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dreams of Silver Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting Lost Stars: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Glass Château: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Goddess of Warsaw: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Stolen Lady: A Novel of WWII and the Mona Lisa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Night Traveler: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The School for German Brides: A Novel of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5La Mia Sorella (My Sister): Ripped Apart By Life, Put Back Together By Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls in the Attic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Storyteller of Casablanca Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mercy Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tiffany Girls: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Historical Fiction For You
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Outlander Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Alice Network: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weyward: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of Achilles: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Clan of the Cave Bear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Apothecary: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Tan's Circle of Women Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5That Bonesetter Woman: the new feelgood novel from the author of The Smallest Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dragon Teeth: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reformatory: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House of Eve Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Yellow Wife: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rules of Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5West with Giraffes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let Us Descend: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5News of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Quiet on the Western Front Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Huntress: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Before I Met You Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for A Train to Moscow
17 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A beautifully written work deserving of the description “modern classic”. The storyline and the characters develop at a constant steady pace throughout providing the reader with an interesting insight into life in post Stalin Russia.