The release date for the English version of 'A Train to Moscow' by
Elena Gorokhova is Mar 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This captivating and moving story of family secrets, love and grief, tenacity and ambition takes place in post-World War II Russia and follows a girl as she struggles to reconcile her terrible past with her optimism for the future.
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. She disobeys her parents and grandparents and leaves her first love, Andrei, behind as she heads to Moscow for a theater school audition.
Sasha finds her uncle Kolya's secret war diary before she departs; Kolya is an artist who is still missing in action years after the war ends. His writings reveal Stalin's brutality's hidden reality as well as the official falsehoods. Sasha's resolve to live a thousand lives on stage is cemented by Kolya's insights and his heartbreaking love story, which mentor her through theater school. Following her graduation, Andrei, who is now an apparatchik for the Communist Party, becomes a censor of her work when she starts performing in Leningrad. Andrei's responsibilities and Sasha's goals collide when a long-kept truth is revealed. Sasha must choose if her objectives are really worthwhile making the required sacrifices and whether, as her grandmother loves to say, everything will work out in the end.