A powerful novel that moves seamlessly between the euphoria of revolution and the intimate and agonizing pull between love and loyalty.
A young woman scrambles up the icy hill above Independence Square in Kiev, desperate to avert the bloody crackdown that threatens the protesters below. The outcome of a revolution, and her brother’s safety, depend on her. And though neither of them realize it, so does the fate of the man she is frantic to see.
Over a decade later, Simon Davey, a disgraced diplomat, follows Olesya Zarchenko into the Tube in London, convinced that she was responsible for his ruin. When he tracks her to a riverside mansion, he begins to see that her life has not been what he thought it was, and neither has his own.
Moving from the euphoria of the barricades to an oligarch’s private dungeon, between idealism and corruption, Independence Square is the story of a country striving to escape its history, and a man struggling to understand his past.
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“Miller…draws on his experience working in the region to tease out the political, civilian, and diplomatic tensions behind the mass protests…[A] vivid portrayal of political intrigue.”
— Publishers Weekly
Listeners who enjoy complex espionage stories like those of le Carré, will want to hear Tim Campbell narrate this taut political thriller.
— AudioFile Magazine“Readers with a keen interest in political fiction will find much to savor in the complex machinations Miller expertly creates.”
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A. D. Miller is the author of several books, including Snowdrops, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the CWA Gold Dagger. As the Moscow correspondent of the London Economist, he has traveled widely across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. He is the culture editor at The Economist.
Tim Campbell, winner of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a narrator and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California and earned a BA in music and theater and a certification from the prestigious Great Books program at Pepperdine University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera Chorus, as well as on studio soundtracks for film and television.