Was Winter Garden a true story?
Zakary McDermott
2025-05-12 13:44:17
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It's true that mothers put their children on trains, with their names pinned to their coats, with no real idea where those trains were going and when they would see their children again, if ever. It's true that several of those trains were sent directly into German troops and bombed. It's also true that Leningrad became a city of women during the siege—men, except for the very young and the very old—were off to fight the Germans. The survivors’ stories literally clawed their way into my heart and there they remain. I read dozens of books about Stalin’s regime, the Great Reign of Terror, and the disappearances that terrified everyone. Unfortunately, the records of this time are not as extensive as they should be. Only recently has the real truth begun to be told. In writing Winter Garden, it was my goal to take this epic, tragic event and personalize it as much as possible. I wanted to give you all this story of survival and loss, horror and heartache in a way that would allow you to experience it with some measure of emotion.
Kiel Larkin
2025-05-12 12:54:57
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Marika neni has told me her story many times of coming to this country. She was a woman I grew up with, who was like an aunt but more of a sister to my stepfather. Marika neni and my stepfather met at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey, when a group of refugees decided on Wheeling for their new home. She said she had cried all the way through "The Nightingale," it was so much like her story, like their story, like hundreds of people’s stories. One gifted woman, who’s soul understood the lives of so many refugees she does not know. Or, maybe she has a Marika neni to enlighten her. It is history that sounds true and it is for someone.
Jillian Schneider
2025-05-12 12:33:08
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Winter Garden is currently available as part of the Kindle Unlimited program and includes WhisperSync for those who prefer the audiobook format. You know why Kristin Hannah is such a pro in my eyes? Because she first wrote her 2010 novel, Winter Garden, as a standard WWII + modern day dual-timeline narrative and quickly realized she needed to redo it because the present storyline wasn’t nearly as compelling as the past. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are. Now grown, Meredith and Nina have never felt loved by their mother but remain fascinated by the Russian fairy tale she used to share with them as children. Their beloved father is now dying, and he urges Anya to tell the girls the real story…. all the way to the end. It’s possible that, for me, Hannah over-corrected in her rewrite, because I actually found the chapters about Meredith and Nina more interesting than their mother’s gradual fiction-into-fact revealing of her tragic experiences in the siege of Leningrad.
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