The rest of the country hops on the train, grabs what's left. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons. 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. Because they only have to supply Moscow and Leningrad. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Kolya’s revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. Elena Gorokhova A Train to Moscow Genre: Author: 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. She achieves that dream, but her discontent with her life and her homeland grows. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin’s brutality. Elena Gorokhovas novel A Train to Moscow follows the life of a young girl named Sasha who grows up in a small city in Russia with the secret dream of becoming an actress. Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. 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. After graduating from Leningrad University, she moved to the United States, carrying one suitcase with twenty kilograms.

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Elena Gorokhova in conversation with Andrew Botsford, followed by book signing and reception. A Train to Moscow is Elena’s first novel.

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