The Bronze Horseman

Series · 5 books · 2000-2014

By Paullina Simons

Books in series

The Bronze Horseman

2000

Librarian note: alternate covers for this edition can be found here and here and here. During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret.

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O Portão Dourado

2014

No início da guerra, em 22 de Junho de 1941, o dia em que Alexander e Tatiana se conheceram, havia três milhões de civis em Leningrado. Na primavera de 1942, apenas um milhão de pessoas permaneciam ali. E o cerco não havia terminado. Depois de deixar Tatiana e Dasha Metanova dentro de um caminhão que seguia pela Estrada da Vida com destino a Molotov, Alexander não tinha nada além de esperanças. Não havia uma única correspondência sequer de Dasha ou Tatiana, nada que indicasse que ambas haviam chegado em segurança a seu destino. Na segunda parte de uma das maiores sagas de amor de todos os tempos, será praticamente impossível conter a emoção ao acompanhar a busca obstinada do ilustre oficial do Exército Vermelho, Alexander Belov, por sua Tatia. E ainda mais arrebatador presenciar se eles conseguirão viver esse intenso amor diante de tantas ameaças de um estrondosos segredo, em meio ao cenário desolador da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Tatiana and Alexander

2003

Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately. Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.

The Summer Garden

2005

The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America. With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son. The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.

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Tatiana's Table

2007

Many years have passed since that time Tatiana made lazy cabbage for Alexander. Yet it was still vivid in her mind: her grandmother’s slightly hoarse quiet voice, the taking of the tram across the river, the waning afternoon, the ache in her limping, broken leg: but above all, the desire to make something for someone, for no other reason than to please him.

Author

Paullina Simons

Author · 21 books

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 continued with more novels, including 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 (also known as Lily). Many of Paullina's novels have reached international bestseller lists. 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.