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“An utterly gripping masterwork…A mixture of historical narrative, novel, and family saga with echoes of Grossman, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and even Tolstoy.” Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author
“A Soviet War and Peace." London Review of Books
“Magisterial…[An] epic that recounts the multigenerational story of the famed building and its inhabitants—and, at least as interesting, the rise and fall of Bolshevist faith.” New Yorker
“A humane masterpiece, rendering the colossal scale of Stalin’s brutality not in numbers but in individual lives and a single Moscow apartment building. There are pages I don’t think any reader will ever forget.” Guardian (London)
“This panoramic history plotted as an epic family tragedy describes the lives of Bolshevik revolutionaries who were swallowed up by the cause they believed in. The story is as intricate as any Russian novel, and the chapters on the Stalinist Terror are the most vivid.” New York Times
“This comprehensive work of scholarship and storytelling will appeal to readers with an interest in the Russian Revolution, the early Soviet Union, and the pitfalls of utopian community building.” Library Journal
“A tour de force.” Robert Service, author of Lenin: A Biography