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The Secret City

Hugh Walpole

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018-10-02
主題	Fiction / Fantasy / HistoricalFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / Literary
ISBN	17275804279781727580426
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I1OhvAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Secret City By Hugh Walpole Set at the time of the Russian revolution (for clarity, the second one, not the first) I spent the entire 446 pages waiting for something, anything, to grab me as either a plot, or a central thread, or even a connection really as to what this book was about. Divided into three sections, the book follows many lives intertwined by different arrivals in Petrograd, Russia, and a family already living there. There is vague mention of a 'monster sighting' beneath a frozen river....there is political intrigue...there is a love story...and there is the revolution. But sadly, none of these themes ever emerges victorious over the others in captivating a reader's interest, at least this reader, and by the end of the tale you are left wondering what you just read.