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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I enjoyed this book and the characters and story were well developed. Writing style was very good. However, I'm completely mystified as to both the title and the reviews on the book which both indicate it is about the Siege of Leningrad. In fact, only a very small proportion of thebook covers the Siege and this section does not indicate that the author did much research into the Seige. The bulk of the book deals with family and social structures under Stalin. This part of the book has clearly been well researched and the complex social interactions and tensions within families and between friends are very well developed. All in all a good book, but it needed a different title. (  ) TigsW | Oct 31, 2009 |   no reviews | add a review
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Loyalties, beliefs, love, family ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Boris Aleksandrovich, a well-meaning bureaucrat, thinks he can negotiate between idealism and politics. His daughter, Natasha, learns otherwise when, as a young woman in love, she is almost crushed by her father's compromises. Watching all this unfold is Irina. Wise, ironic, marvelous Irina, whom Boris had persuaded to go on an ill-fated voyage to the Arctic Circle, where she barely survived. When she arrives back in Leningrad, he feels honor bound to find her a position within his family circle. Irina comes to understand how love for another may, in the end, be more powerful and more profound than blind loyalty to an idea. Exciting and heroic, peopled with wonderfully complex characters, Ice Road is a masterpiece. A finalist for the Orange Prize.
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