All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: McKeon, Darragh
ISBN: 9780241964675
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 May 2015
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
An exceptionally moving reinvention of the great Russian novel
Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And in a village in Ukraine, a boy wakes up to a sky of deepest crimson. In the fields, the cattle's ears are dripping blood. Ten miles away, at the Chernobyl Power Plant, something unimaginable has happened. Now their lives will change forever.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an electrifying novel about extraordinary lives in remarkable times.
ISBN: 9780241964675
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 May 2015
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
An exceptionally moving reinvention of the great Russian novel
Moscow, 1986. In a run-down apartment block, a piano prodigy practices silently to avoid disturbing the neighbours. In a factory, his aunt makes car parts, hiding her dissident past. In the hospital, a talented surgeon buries himself in his work. And in a village in Ukraine, a boy wakes up to a sky of deepest crimson. In the fields, the cattle's ears are dripping blood. Ten miles away, at the Chernobyl Power Plant, something unimaginable has happened. Now their lives will change forever.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is an electrifying novel about extraordinary lives in remarkable times.
