Comrade Koba: A Novel 9781419748332 Robert Littell - Free Tracked Delivery
Comrade Koba is the tight, captivating story of a naive child’s encounters with a Soviet dictator by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Robert Littell. Leon Rozental—10 and a half, intellectually precocious, and possessing a disarming candor—is suddenly alone after the death of his nuclear physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors. Now on his own and hiding from the NKVD in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment, the massive building in Moscow where many Soviet officials and apparatchiks live and work, Leon starts to explore. One day, after following a passageway, Leon meets Koba, an old man whose apartment is protected by several guards. Koba is a high-ranking Soviet official with troubling insight into the.
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