Lost Souls of Leningrad, Suzanne Parry
Lost Souls of Leningrad, Suzanne Parry
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Lost Souls of Leningrad
A Novel

Author: Suzanne Parry

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 12 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/09/2024

Synopsis

June 1941. Hitler's armies race toward vulnerable Leningrad. In a matter of weeks, the Nazis surround the city, cut off the food supply, and launch a vicious bombardment. Widowed violinist Sofya Karavayeva and her teenage granddaughter, Yelena, are cornered in the crumbling city.

On Leningrad's outskirts, Admiral Vasili Antonov defends his homeland and fights for a future with Sofya. Meanwhile, Yelena's soldier fiancé transports food across the Ice Road—part of the desperate effort to save Leningrad. With their help, the two women inch toward survival, but the war still exacts a steep personal price, even as Sofya's reckoning with a family secret threatens to finish what Hitler started.

Equal parts war epic, family saga, and love story, Lost Souls of Leningrad brings to vivid life this little-known chapter of World War II in a tale of two remarkable women—grandmother and granddaughter—separated by years and experience but of one heart in their devotion to each other and the men they love. Neither the oppression of Stalin nor the brutality of Hitler can destroy their courage, compassion, or will in this testament to resilience.

About Suzanne Parry

Suzanne Parry's interest in the Soviet Union began in college. As as undergraduate, she studied Russian in Moscow. After earning a master's degree from Princeton University, she joined the US Department of Defense and worked as an arms control specialist at the Pentagon, where she helped negotiate the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, the first security agreement of the Gorbachev era. Suzanne went on to raise a large family (requiring its own negotiating skills), teach university, and move to several different countries. She landed in Portland, Oregon, where she coached high school cross-country and track before embarking on a writing career. A committed runner, she has completed several dozen marathons, including the fifty-six-mile Comrades Marathon in South Africa. She now divides her time between Portland and Washington, DC. When not writing, running, or planning her next travel adventure, she enjoys time with her adult children and grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen

There isn’t much written about Hitler’s war entering the Soviet Union. This was another path of destruction where the Nazis formed a blockade around Leningrad and kept its citizens in a noose-thereby cutting them off from food and other supplies, killing almost a million civilians. This was known as......more

Goodreads review by Marilyn (not getting notifications)

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry was one of the best historical fiction books about World War II that I have ever read. This book deserves every one of these glimmering five stars. If I could have handed out more stars I would have. The all encompassing and brutal siege of Leningrad was the......more

Goodreads review by Ann

This novel tells the horrific story of the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis during WWII. Cutoff from support by the Nazi blockade, without food or power and under constant bombing, several million people suffered terribly and many hundred thousand died. The main character is Sofya, a concert violinis......more

Goodreads review by Linda

The Lost Souls of Leningrad is populated with characters who narrate different chapters and grab your heart with their predicaments resulting from the 1940s German siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Parry has expertise in Russian military affairs and applies her knowledge to the story so that......more

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