Natasha Templeton

Winter in the Summer Garden (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This vivid, moving and provocative novel presents a story of a whole society caught up in national turmoil. Told through the experiences of one family, the Shubins, and their city of Leningrad, their story of love and heartbreak is universal. Starting with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the novel moves both back and forward in time, following three generations of the Shubins as they face the horrors of war, political upheaval, imprisonment and famine. Their experiences are harsh, but their spirit remains undaunted and their family ties unbreakable. The legacy of hardship never quite relaxes its grip, but what endures is their humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781869796808
• Artikelnr.: 43809777

Autorenporträt

Natasha Templeton's Russian family came to New Zealand in 1951 after years as post-war "displaced persons". In a Bavarian camp she received an intensive Russian education before attending Wellington East Girl's College and Victoria University, where she studied modern languages and English Literature. She started work in the War Histories Section of Internal Affairs but her love for the theatre had led her to the varsity drama club and on to Unity Theatre and Radio Drama productions. In 1957-59 she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and worked in repertory at Croydon. On return to Wellington, she married Hugh Templeton, Rhodes Scholar and diplomat, and they served overseas: first in Samoa and then in New York, where Natasha took an MA degree in Russian Literature at Columbia University. Back in New Zealand, while raising her two children, Natasha worked as a teacher, book reviewer and lecturer on Russian literature. She also wrote short stories. In 1980s she began research on a wartime trilogy of which two novels have appeared, Firebird and Winter in the Summer Garden.