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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air charts the final days of the Soviet Union through the intersecting lives of four characters. In Moscow, a nine‑year‑old piano prodigy practises quietly in a run‑down apartment block, while his aunt works on car parts by day and hides a dissident history by night. A surgeon, overwhelmed by a failed marriage, immerses himself in his profession in the city hospital. Far from the capital, in a rural Belarus village, a teenage boy wakes to a sky stained with crimson, as the Chernobyl disaster unleashes unimaginable radiation. The novel captures the dramatic transformation of personal and national identity amid the collapse of an era.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Darragh McKeon
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