Home Author:Ronald Harwood In 1986 the son of a peasant brings his aristocratic wife back to her family's great mansion at Sobliki -- and an extraordinary story of love, tragedy and undying hope at last comes full circle. — Through a century of revolution and war a human tide poured westward from Russia and eastern Europe. Including four families who could never, in the o... more »ld order, have met.
An aristocratic family of royal descent, and a family of Jewish peasants; the son of a Moscow merchant, and a Polish academic, are scattered from London, Paris and Hamburg to Hollywood and Cape Town. And none of them could have dreamed, when the cataclysm began in 1911, of the dramatic chain of events that would finally link them through a wedding in a small English town...« less