Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR in 1963. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.
After graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world.
She has since written Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross, (also known as Tatiana and Alexander.) The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square. Many of Paullina's novels have reached international bestseller lists in countries including Australia and New Zealand.
Apart from her novels, Paullina has also written a cookbook, Tatiana's Table, which is a collection of recipes, short stories and recollections from her best selling trilogy of novels, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross, (also known as Tatiana and Alexander) and The Summer Garden.
Paullina's latest novel is Road To Paradise which is currently available in all reputable Australian and New Zealand book stores.
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose beautiful palaces and stately avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg.
Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. It is a hard, impoverished life, yet the Metanovs know many who are not as fortunate as they.
The family routine is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanovs, for Leningrad and for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On the fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young officer named Alexander.
Tatiana and her family suffer as Hitler's army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn to each other in an impossible love. It is a love that could tear Tatiana's family apart, a love that carries a secret that could mean death for anyone who hears it.
Confronted on the one hand by Hitler's unstoppable war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world.
Mesmerizing from the very first page to the final, breathtaking end, The Bronze Horseman brings alive the story of two indomitable, heroic spirits and their great love that triumphs over the devastation of a country at war.
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評分怎麼說呢,在我對這本書已經有偏見的情況下最後它還是能感動到我,說明它確有可取之處。最好的描寫是圍城的列寜格勒,但我依然很不喜歡女主角彆扭的性格(很好地培養瞭我的忍耐力和承受力)以及在我看來沒有必要的長而拖遝的節奏。
評分2014-03-16 讀過 怎麼說呢,在我對這本書已經有偏見的情況下最後它還是能感動到我,說明它確有可取之處。最好的描寫是圍城的列寜格勒,但我依然很不喜歡女主角彆扭的性格(很好地培養瞭我的忍耐力和承受力)以及在我看來沒有必要的長而拖遝的節奏。
評分怎麼說呢,在我對這本書已經有偏見的情況下最後它還是能感動到我,說明它確有可取之處。最好的描寫是圍城的列寜格勒,但我依然很不喜歡女主角彆扭的性格(很好地培養瞭我的忍耐力和承受力)以及在我看來沒有必要的長而拖遝的節奏。
評分怎麼說呢,在我對這本書已經有偏見的情況下最後它還是能感動到我,說明它確有可取之處。最好的描寫是圍城的列寜格勒,但我依然很不喜歡女主角彆扭的性格(很好地培養瞭我的忍耐力和承受力)以及在我看來沒有必要的長而拖遝的節奏。
The Bronze Horseman 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載