Polostan

Bomb Light, Book 1

De: Neal Stephenson

Narrado por: January LaVoy

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of TERMINATION SHOCK, the first installment in a monumental trilogy: an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.

The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C. during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.

Set against the turbulent decades of the early 20th century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.

©2024 Neal Stephenson (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers

The half told story.

The story stopped when it was about to take off.

A story with little or no connections to present days, which is pretensiously make you believe at the outset.

Moar! Gimme Moar!

Yet another literary masterpiece in the making! When is the next book, Mr. Stephenson?!

Great historical fiction of such an interesting era, such a fascinating east-west boundary exploration as a setting for such a striking narrative told by deep characters … oh boy!