“Elena Gorokhova’s debut novel, A Train to Moscow, is a taut, high-wire masterpiece. Sasha’s story of pursuing her dreams no matter the cost will stay in your heart long after reading.” -Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept “Spellbinding, poignant, breathtaking, Elena Gorokhova’s first novel explores the meaning of truth, art, and the cost of secrets under the Soviet regime. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha’s ambitions converge with Andrei’s duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei.īefore she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in this powerful and poignant novel about family secrets, passion and loss, perseverance and ambition.
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