Debra Dean’s first novel THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD, in which the siege of Leningrad during World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and memory of an elderly Russian woman who was once a young docent at the Hermitage but who now lives in Seattle and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, to Claire Wachtel at Morrow, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world, excl. German).
