Polostan
303 pages
|Published: 15 Oct 2024
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ISBN: 9780062334497
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication date: 15 October 2024
Description
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part 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 gunrunning 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.
