May 24, 2011 / Leslie

Giveaway: The Russian Affair

The Russian Affair
by Michael Wallner

Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Doubleday
Publish Date: April 12, 2011
Format: Hardcover | 400 pages

Thanks to Liz at Doubleday Books I have two copies of The Russian Affair to give away to my readers.

I have just received my book and haven’t had a chance to read and review it yet. It looks to be a thought provoking story on the choices people make and the consequences of their actions set in Moscow during the Cold War era.

Description from the publisher:

Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Viktorovna lives in Moscow with her young son and her father, a once popular and respected poet who has fallen into disgrace because of his dissident views. Her husband, a junior officer in the Red Army, is on active duty and living seven time zones away. Anna struggles gamely through her difficult existence, doing the best she can amidst the long lines, bureaucratic inferno, and corruption and incompetence of the police state. When she meets and makes an impression on a powerful Soviet official—Alexey Bulgyakov—her life begins to look a little brighter. Alexey is married and nearly twice her age, but he turns out to be a man of infinite patience and forbearance, and gradually a strange but solid bond grows between them. Though Anna still loves her mostly absent husband and harbors no illusions about the future, she and Alexey become lovers.

Soon Anna and Alexey’s burgeoning romance is irrevocably threatened when a KGB colonel forces Anna to spy on Alexey, who is suspected of disloyalty to the state. Though Anna loathes the notion of double-crossing the man she has come to love, when her family is threatened she must comply. But Anna isn’t the only character playing a double game.

About The Author

Michael Wallner is an actor and screenwriter. He divides his time between Berlin and the Black Forest.

Giveaway Information

[Contest Now Closed. Winners are Melanie and Betty]
Contest is open to US addresses only, no PO Boxes. The book will be shipped by the publisher.

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The deadline for entry is June 5th, midnight, central time. I will draw 2 winners using random.org. Winners will be contacted by email and have 48 hours to respond with a mailing address.
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