RED SKY AT NOON - Hardcover

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780894724 ISBN 13: 9781780894720

Publisher: Cornerstone Digital, 2017

Synopsis

Red Sky at Noon

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian specializing in Russia. Born in 1965, he read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The author of several novels and a presenter of television documentaries, he is married with two children and lives in London.

Review:

“Historian, biographer, and novelist Montefiore has garnered critical acclaim and commercial success in each discipline, and his latest demonstrates his deftness in crafting a deeply engaging story that is only enriched by his skills as a historian and biographer. Offering historical accuracy, a fine empathy for his characters, and a story that illuminates the operatic tragedy of Stalin’s rule, Red Sky at Noon is brilliant on multiple levels.”
- Booklist (starred)

“Montefiore has legions of fans for his histories (The Romanovs), but his ‘Moscow Trilogy’ (One Night in Winter; Sashenka) opens the floodgates to the imaginative re-creation of archival facts. Benya’s story animates a ten-day, desperate struggle in Stalin’s huge gamble against the Nazi war machine. World War II fiction aficionados will want to read this.”
- Library Journal

“Written with brio and deep knowledge of the fascinating subject matter.  Deeply satisfying.”
- The Times "Book of the Month" (London)

“A dispatch from the days of blood and thunder.  Benya's struggle to keep his humanity is the memorable spine of the book.”
- The Times (London)

“A searing tale of love and war. A homage to the author's favorite Russian writers and the Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, and Elmore Leonard.  Such influences pervade this atmospheric tale told in the author's own distinct voice.  ”
- The Observer (London)

“Intensely moving, with an unforgettable climax that will touch the hardest heart.”
- Jung Chang, author of WILD SWANS and MAO

“It's Lonesome Dove meets Stalingrad. A band of outlaws riding and fighting for their lives on sweeping plains―but these bandits are not battling tribes in the Wild West, they are on the grasslands of south Russia at war with Nazi Germany and its ally, the Italians. Our hero is not a Texas Ranger but a Jewish writer named Benya Golden. Montefiore has brought his understand of Russian history to life here with great gusto traversing Gulags, battlefields and Kremlin but Golden is a lover not a fighter...”
- Leila McKinnon, Women's Weekly (Australia)

“Enthralling. Montefiore, hailed for his works of history and biography, is masterly at sketching scenes―passionate, melancholy, menacing―and limning characters. In a league of its own.”
- The Wall Street Journal, "Best Book of the Year" (Praise for THE MOSCOW TRILOGY)

“Montefiore is a natural storyteller who brings his encyclopedic knowledge of Russian history to life in language that glitters. Montefiore shows that the historian seeking the truth must call upon creativity as much as upon meticulous research. Here’s hoping we get more spellbinding historical fiction from him.”
- The Washington Post (Praise for Simon Sebag Montefiore)

“Riveting, evocative, affecting and tragic. Montefiore is a masterful writer and a marvelous storyteller, and the way he peels back the layers propels the reader onward, eager to learn the key to the mystery. ”
- The Seattle Times (Praise for Simon Sebag Montefiore)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1780894724
• ISBN 13: 9781780894720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 397