A sweeping novel of modern Russia, a moving story of love, an aspiring saga of human greatness. Following the life of Andrei Sokolov from the time of the Russian revolution to his adulthood as a famous writer conemned as a traitor and sent into exile in the West.
The Gates of Hell is enormously rich in setting and in character. This is a timely, powerful novel about the sacrifice of private lives to political power, about the dissenting voices that willn ot be silenced despite the dangers, about the incredible endurance of human spirit.