EAN: 9780593499801

THE ORCHARD - KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY KARTON...

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will
live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel  loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s
The Cherry Orchard.Spectacular . . . intensely evocative and gorgeously written . . . will fill
readers’ eyes with tears and wonder.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR: New York Post Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s  best friends Anya and Milka try to
envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just
outside of Moscow  lazing in the apple orchard  listening to Queen songs  and fantasizing about
trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Meanwhile  Anya’s parents talk about World
War II  the Blockade  and the hardships they have endured. By the time Anya and Milka are
fifteen  the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They pair up with classmates Trifonov
and Lopatin  and the four friends share secrets and desires  argue about history and politics 
and discuss forbidden books. But the world is changing  and the fleeting time they have
together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. Years later  Anya returns to Russia from America 
where she has chosen a different kind of life  far from her family and childhood friends. When
she meets Lopatin again  he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents’ dacha and cut
down the apple orchard. Haunted by the ghosts of her youth  Anya comes to the stark realization
that memory does not fade or disappear  rather  it moves us across time  connecting our past to
our future  joys to sorrows. Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard  Kristina
Gorcheva-Newberry’s The Orchard powerfully captures the lives of four Soviet teenagers who are
about to lose their country and one another  and who struggle to survive  to save their
friendship  to recover all that has been lost.

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