Lost Believers Zhorov Irina
A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia--a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian…
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A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia--a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian taiga and an ambitious scientist--that irrevocably changes the course of both of their lives.Galina, a promising young geologist from Moscow, is falling in love with her pilot, Snow Crane, on a trip exploring for minerals in Siberia. As their helicopter hovers over what should be a stretch of uninhabited forest, they see a small hut and a garden--and, the following day, when they hike from their field camp to the hut, they find a family.Agafia was born in Siberia into a family of Old Believers, a small sect of Christians who rejected the reforms that shaped the modern Russian Orthodox church. Her parents fled religious persecution four decades earlier, hiking deep into the