The famous trilogy of Paullina Simons

I'm still in Valentine's Day mode, that although black heart also turns pink from time to time. Is trilogy of The Bronze HorsemanWritten by Paullina simonsIt's one of those that melts it for me. And possibly one of the most famous titles of the romantic gender in this new millennium. So if you are diabetic souls or Cupid skeptics, refrain from reading any further. But if you are passionate and in love spirits, this is your reading for these dates.

The love story capitalized between Tatiana Metanov and the lieutenant of the Red Army Alexander Belov (Shura for all of us who will always adore him) is one of leave a mark. If you are also lovers of Second World War and the russian front in particular, it will already be the auction. In my case, all the conditions were met. It was from those readings on the train with the book glued to the face to mask the waves of emotion. That with the first novel. The following I was able to read them on my mobile phone before they fell on paper.

Paullina simons was born in the old Leningrad, today Saint Petersburg, in 1963. She liked to write since she was a child and at the age of 10 she moved with her family to the United States. This trilogy, written and published in five years, is his greatest success.

The Bronze Horseman (2000)

At Lóleo Eventos, Leningrad, 1941 the war in Europe seems far away. Two sisters live there, Tatiana and Dasha Metanov, who share a tiny apartment with their family. Life under Stalin is tough, but it will turn into hell when the Germans arrive. But first Tatiana, the naive younger sister at just 17 years old, meets Alexander, Red Army lieutenant of mysterious and troubled past. He love it is instantaneous. But there will be so many difficulties Let them come between them, from their families to the terrible siege of the city, that their love will be almost impossible. Almost.

Tatiana and Alexander (2003)

For the war, pregnant, sick and desolate, Tatiana manages to reach the United States. There he will try to start a new existence with the illusion that Alexander, done prisoner, get away from the black fate to which you seem doomed. Meanwhile, Alexander suffer the unspeakable. It is only the memory of Tatiana and his hope that she is still alive that keeps him strong. When the war ends both will fight to meet. And they will.

The Summer Garden (2005)

Tatiana and Alexander, with their son, have been able to return to the United States. They have survived to a terrible war, but the wounds that they carry in the spirit remain open. Y the years of separation have made them strangers. For the first time they can live as a family, but it will not be easy for them. They will travel the country looking for temporary jobs, but that erratic life is a desperate escape from that harsh emotional burden. Your love and happiness are threatened, and the one who suffers the most from the situation is his son.

Why read it

Because it has it all: great story, great setting and great characters, also the secondary ones. For his narrative full of intensity. You have the same feeling of realism going through the frozen streets of besieged Leningrad or traveling the long highways of the United States of the 60s.

And, undoubtedly, by the quality and charisma given to its main characters. With them you you laugh and cry. You are as deeply moved as you suffer from their ups and downs and dramas. You travel with them both physically and within them, and yours. You live and feel to the maximum its encounters and misunderstandings, its secrets, its disappointments and its passions. But above all you live the same love. A love that keeps them together from adolescence to old age. Of those that occasionally you need to be told and then you don't forget.

Anyway, those of us who fell in love with and with Tatiana and Alexander will be able to corroborate my words.