The People's Act Of Love

Author: Meek, James

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Published on 20 June 2019 by CANONGATE BOOKS LTD (Canongate Canons) as part of 'the Canons' series.

Paperback | 416 pages
129 x 197 x 27 | 296g

1919, Siberia.

Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .