No Country for Love

<p><b>''An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman''s <i>Life and Fate'' </i>Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for <i>The Safe House</i><br><br>''A captivating sweep of a novel about love, resilience and impossible choices... I loved it!'' Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent <i>Sunday Times</i><br></b><br>Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it''s a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to mix with Ukraine''s new cultural elite.<br><br>But Debora''s prospects - and Ukraine''s - soon dim. State-induced famine rolls through