Might just be the most wonderful book I’ve ever read. Cheers to Sasha (and Rick)!

HEROIC, INSPIRING, COMICAL, THOUGHTFUL

Best book I’ve read in a long time!! One of the few I’ll read again.

I can appreciate the historical significance of this book, but I'm not sure it was worth all the effort.

I read it late at night over the course of over a year. The imagery brought to mind with the clear and simple writing kept the story fresh in my mind. I love the serenity with which the author treated the subject of a complex time in history by focusing on a man with elegance. Caleb Johnson - Maine

Excellent !

Beautifully written book will draw you inside another world. Well done!

The beauty of this novel has left me speechless. So much depth and intertwining themes; joy, gratitude, loyalty, patience, acceptance, love, community, neatly undone (and yet NOT) by hypocrisy, envy, humiliation, and atrocity. This is a book that I could only afford to put down through sheer exhaustion though readily and easily picked right back up after a few hours repose. Simultaneously distressing and hopeful, one could imagine himself in the shoes of the majority of proud Russians forced into obscurity by a futile ideology begun by the Bolsheviks and co-opted by Communists.

A wonderful read, full of surprises.

Just finished my second read. This will share the top spot of my favorite book of all time alongside …of Mice and Men.