From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and The
Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate
of the Romanov family.
Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of
Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign.
Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of
death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of
his days.
Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make
one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia
that both destroyed and defined him.
As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg,
to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century--a time
of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most
painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special
purpose.