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The Red Scarf | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Furnivall
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 24250
Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425221644
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780425221648
ASIN: 0425221644
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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Product Description
The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel.
Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily.
After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, she s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refuge she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He s everything she has ever wanted but he belongs to Anna.
After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear
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 Fantastic June 29, 2008
N. K. Pelchat (Litchfield County, CT)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Truly terrific book. I picked it up at the store on a whim, and once I opened it, I couldn't put it down. It takes place in communist Russia, which I have to admit that I knew almost nothing about previously, and the thoughtless at best, abusive at worst treatment of the Russian people was just appalling. The author very effectively goes back into flashbacks without seeming to overtake the story with them, and the characters are all fully developed people, with faults and humanity and a sense of desperation to just survive their lives. Add a dash of the supernatural, and several unexpected twists, and I'll call this the best book I've read so far this year.
powerful historical July 2, 2008
Harriet Klausner
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
In 1933 Sofia Morozova struggles to survive her ordeal in Siberia's Davinsky labor camp. She lives because she has a long term goal of freedom and a short term objective to keep the spirit of frail half-broken Anna Fedorina going; she knows Anna depends on her for her minuscule fading flicker of hope.
When Anna becomes ill, Sofia desperately seeks help, which means leaving the camp. She escapes in hopes of finding Anna's childhood love Vasily a revolutionary allegedly living in Tivil. Sofia meets factory director Mikhail Pashin, whom she believes is Vasily in disguise. As she falls in love with Mikhail, she refuses to act on her feelings because if he is Vasily, as she believes, he belongs to Anna.
This is a deep character driven tale starring two courageous women, a brave man, and the labor camp that is so vividly described it takes on a role of a horror figure. Sofia is wonderful as she survives the same way some people did the Nazi's concentration camps a decade later by making friends to care for, thinking of the happiness in her past in Petrograd and believing in a future life beyond the death prison. The romance takes a back seat though well written and enhancing the overall plot as Kate Furnivall concentrates on a powerful historical that focuses on the horrors of the Siberian death camps.
Harriet Klausner
Another amazing success for Furnivall! July 14, 2008
A. LaPointe (Oklahoma)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Red Scarf was an excellent story. I found it to be just as engrossing as The Russian Concubine, but in a totally different way. Furnivall has the rare talent of making each of her novels a completely unique experience for the reader. Amazingly well researched, true to life in its time, I whole-heartedly recommend The Red Scarf.
Magnificent! August 16, 2008
Amanda M. Vladick (Poughkeepsie, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An absolute masterpiece from Kate Furnivall--hands down the best book I've read all summer. I read the first page sitting a Borders cafe, and didn't put it down until I'd finished the final chapter. Anyone who appreciates intricate, delightful storytelling and picture-perfect prose should put this on their list of must-reads.
Great Read July 22, 2008
Alley (NE (unfortunately))
I visited St. Petersburg a couple of summers ago and have since then trying to get my hands on anything that will give me more insight to Russia and her history. This book provided a perspective of collectivism, Stalin's labor camps, and communism, with of course, the human tragedy associated with those things. I'm trying to find more books like this, so if you know of any, respond to this!
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