Polostan
Volume One of Bomb Light
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2,5 • 2 Bewertungen
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- 12,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.
The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s 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.
Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.
Kundenrezensionen
Promising
First of all, the rating is in relation to other Stephenson novels. As such, it rates indeed in the medium range. It is an enjoyable book though, as usual with a delightful mixture of historical and fictional characters, fitting into the gap between the two timelines in the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon.
This first book of a new series revolves around a young woman torn between mother and father, the rural USA and developing Soviet Russia. We see the inconsistencies between her beliefs and reality clash in both cases, leaving her both rest- and homeless throughout her entire youth and adolescence. Used as either an asset or a hostage by the mighty, yet unwilling to remain a helpless victim, she tries to find her place in this rapidly changing world.
The reader can only watch and hope for the best, knowing that the worst is yet to come.
Jumps in the story’s timeline are a bit jarring, but serve the narrative well.
The plot develops rather slowly and the end is (maybe typical for Stephenson) pretty sudden, this book makes it very evident that it is to be the first in a longer epic. Readers with little patience may want to avoid this.
Price vs Content
Surreal high price for a well written book that is little more than an appetizer.