CHIMES OF A LOST CATHEDRAL, Janet Fitch’s brilliant sequel to The Revolution of Marina M., picks up right where the previous volume leaves off and continues at the same pace. We are plunged back into a world of furious beauty, sprawling, majestic landscapes, and erotically charged and traumatic encounters, with life and love hanging in the balance.
-Ani Kokobobo at Los Angeles Review of Books
Read MoreFitch’s darker, equally compelling sequel [to the Revolution of Marina M.] tracks Marina’s perilous journey from 1919 to 1921... Marina’s yearning for freedom propels her to risk everything in the dramatic final scenes.
Read More"Fitch’s transporting sequel to The Revolution of Marina M. (2017) is even better than the first book. Ceaselessly entertaining through its lengthy page count, it presents a disillusioned, more mature Marina Makarova as she is broken and remade alongside Russia during its civil war….”
Read MoreThe novel is both story and history, which prove inseparable, as the young life of our heroine, Marina Makarova, is upended first by the Russian Revolution and later by the Civil War.
Read More[T]his is an epic narrative that depends very little on the traditional rewards of plot.… Each phase of [Marina's] story builds on the last, and it’s a pleasure to see her develop…
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