{"product_id":"the-silence-that-remains-meg-wingerter-9781968761103","title":"The Silence that Remains","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe famine that decimated Annushka's village officially never happened. Since she was a child, she's kept quiet about what she saw in an implicit bargain with the Soviet regime: behave, and you might live to see your parents again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe survives by keeping her head down and cultivating the image of a loyal, if not terribly bright, citizen. When the Nazi invasion of Ukraine forces her to flee east, however, she meets people as disillusioned as herself: Diana, a former ballerina pressed into serving as a concubine for a powerful man; and Viktor, a haunted veteran returning from imprisonment in a labor camp. With them, she finally feels free to speak the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is Stalin's Russia, and anyone can betray her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Silence that Remains is a sweeping historical epic that takes readers from Paris to the far reaches of Siberia, and from the battlefields of World War I to the end of the gulag system. But it is also a deep exploration of what decent people do when prosperity, and even survival, depend on falling in line behind one of history's most brutal dictators and his devoted enforcers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meg Wingerter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1968761101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968761103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Wingerter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Meg Wingerter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48154217677055,"sku":"9781968761103","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fc8000a-ce18-412e-ab98-a737692596d1.jpg?v=1770788686","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-silence-that-remains-meg-wingerter-9781968761103","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}