Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning …Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington ... Read more Read less
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and
Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy—an expansive
historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the
Atomic Age.
Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn Rae Bjornberg is raised in post-
Revolution Leningrad by her 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 gun-running 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 20th century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed,
and deeply entertaining historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal
Stephenson.
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