**A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution
and civil war in this "brilliant" novel set in "a world of furious
beauty" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
**After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young
poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the devastation of the
Russian Civil War -- pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her own
resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her child and
eventually make her way back to her native city, Petrograd.
After two years of revolution, the city that was once St. Petersburg is
almost unrecognizable, the haunted, half-emptied, starving Capital of
Once Had Been, its streets teeming with homeless children. Moved by
their plight, though hardly better off herself, she takes on the
challenge of caring for these orphans, until they become the tool of
tragedy from an unexpected direction.
Shaped by her country's ordeals and her own trials -- betrayal and
privation and inconceivable loss -- Marina evolves as a poet and a woman
of sensibility and substance hardly imaginable at the beginning of her
transformative odyssey.
Chimes of a Lost Cathedral is the culmination of one woman's s journey
through some of the most dramatic events of the last century -- the epic
story of an artist who discovers her full power, passion, and creativity
just as her revolution reveals its true direction for the future.
