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The 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.
She 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.
But this is Stalin's Russia, and anyone can betray her.
The 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.
Author: Meg Wingerter
Publisher: Megan Wingerter
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781968761103
About the Author
Wingerter, Meg: - Meg (Hart) Wingerter started writing this book right out of college, because pens, notebooks, and library books were about all she could afford for entertainment on intern wages. It took nearly eight years, five jobs, four states, one pandemic, and enough research to create a freshman-level course on early Soviet history, but at the end, she had a novel.Wingerter lives in the Denver area with her husband, Justin, and daughter Claire. She covers health for The Denver Post, and has been published in The Oklahoman, The Topeka Capital-Journal, The Muskegon Chronicle, and The (Lancaster) Sunday News. She has been recognized for her journalistic writing, and beat Mitch Albom for top columnist in Michigan in 2012. Despite what the trolls may tell you, this is her first work of fiction.
Description
The 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.
She 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.
But this is Stalin's Russia, and anyone can betray her.
The 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.
Author: Meg Wingerter
Publisher: Megan Wingerter
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781968761103
About the Author
Wingerter, Meg: - Meg (Hart) Wingerter started writing this book right out of college, because pens, notebooks, and library books were about all she could afford for entertainment on intern wages. It took nearly eight years, five jobs, four states, one pandemic, and enough research to create a freshman-level course on early Soviet history, but at the end, she had a novel.Wingerter lives in the Denver area with her husband, Justin, and daughter Claire. She covers health for The Denver Post, and has been published in The Oklahoman, The Topeka Capital-Journal, The Muskegon Chronicle, and The (Lancaster) Sunday News. She has been recognized for her journalistic writing, and beat Mitch Albom for top columnist in Michigan in 2012. Despite what the trolls may tell you, this is her first work of fiction.
