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1) The betrayal
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young doctor, and Ana, a nursery school teacher, know their happiness is precarious. When Andrei treats the child of a senior secret police officer, it becomes painfully clear that his own fate, and that of his family, is bound to the child's.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
On his release from a gulag in the Soviet Union, a British businessman becomes a teacher in the village of a fellow prisoner who died. Twenty years later he is discovered by his own--the embassy is sending a car. But are they still his own? For Alexander Bayliss, 80, a dilemma. By the author of Hiroshima Joe
3) The fencer
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Estonian
Description
"Fleeing from the Soviet secret police, Estonian fencer Endel Nelis returns to his homeland and finds work as a children's sports instructor. Quickly becoming a role model to his students, Nelis begins teaching them competitive fencing techniques despite the objections of school administrators. When the children are invited to a fencing tournament in Leningrad, Nelis must make a choice: put his safety first or risk everything to take the children...