Janet Fitch's first novel, White Oleander, a #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection, has been translated into twenty-eight languages and was made into a feature film. Her second novel, Paint It Black, hit bestseller lists across the country and has also been made into a film. Her third novel, The Revolution of Marina M., begins an epic journey through the Russian Revolution, which concludes with Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.
"The Revolution of Marina M. takes us deep inside the Russian
Revolution and lets us witness it through a pair of remarkable
eyes. Marina is a female Zhivago - a poet who uses her
intelligence, her passion, and her love of language to interpret
and survive the political turmoil around her. Janet Fitch is a
wonderful writer and this might be her best book."--David
Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife
"A beautiful, cinematic novel...Hollywood, take note."--Alison K.
Hill, Daily Bulletin
"A captivating novel starring an unforgettable heroine, The
Revolution of Marina M. shows you a side to the Russian Revolution
you've never seen before."--Sadie Trombetta, Bustle
"Ambitious, vivid, engrossing. Fitch puts flesh and bones on one of
the most tumultuous times in human history, a vast canvas filled
with the rising up the oppressed, naïve hope, abrupt reversals and
crushing betrayals. The novel is a virtuoso rendition of the time,
buoyed by Fitch's impeccable research and her bold, unforgettable
prose."--Susan Sherman, author of If You Are There and TheLittle
Russian
"An achingly lyric chronicle of the Russian Revolution seen through
the eyes of one of its daughters of privilege as she skirts the
peripheries of her own adulthood. Fundamentally though, it is a
story of the insurgent politics of a woman's heart -- whom and how
she loves, what governs, betrays, or becomes her. The beauty of
this book broke me open. Janet Fitch is stunningly, startlingly
talented."--Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau
"Fitch captures the epic grandeur of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy,
situating her characters in the pages of authentic history. Yet she
also infuses her protagonists with transgressive sexual
energy...vividly portraying Marina's sexual awakenings as she falls
in and out of love.... Readers of Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, and
Margaret Mitchell will thrill to this narrative of women in love
during the cataclysm of war."--Barbara Conaty, Library Journal
"Fitch catches and holds our interest through 800 pages, rewarding
us with rich and provocative stories, compelling characters and
literary prose of the very highest order."--Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish
Journal
"Fitch narrows the Russian Revolution to one woman's perspective,
crafting a gorgeous epic that's a must-read for historical fiction
fans."--Frannie Jackson, Paste Magazine
"Fitch's novel presents a richly described, on-the-street view of
the revolution's transformative, often violent throes.... she
provides an excellent sense of history's unpredictability and shows
how the desperate pursuit of survival leads to morally compromising
decisions...Fitch's cinematic storytelling and Marina's vibrant
personality are standout elements in this dramatic novel."--Sarah
Johnson, Booklist
"In this lusty and intelligent novel, Fitch brilliantly entwines
the blooming of a teenage girl with the bursting of a country, and
tells their story with such intensity and urgency you can nearly
hear the thundering hoofbeats of time and feel the shaking through
the pages. This is an epic deserving comparison to the Russian
masterworks -- not for its size, but for its scope, not for its
subject, but for the sweep with which it meets it. Rarely have I
ever known history to come so fully, fiercely alive."--Josh Weil,
author of The Great Glass Sea
"Incandescent. Fitch has expertly drawn the world of Russia in 1916
in flurries of white, like an exquisite snow globe, and then nudged
it to the edge of a precipice, until in one jarring push, it falls.
It crashes and each brilliant shard lifts and swirls. Poets,
artists, profiteers, soldiers, cult leaders, sadists, idealists,
blood, sex, hope all piecing together in a new life, a new country.
The brilliant Janet Fitch has written yet another powerful,
kaleidoscopic novel."--Cynthia Bond, author of Ruby
"It's a portrait of a moment in time -- of a woman in time, in fact
-- that we don't often see, and you'll find yourself savoring each
and every word of this breathtaking novel."--Chelsea Hassler,
PopSugar
"Janet Fitch's The Revolution of Marina M., an epic tale of one
young woman's story amid the drama and tragedy of the Russian
Revolution, is just the thing to keep you both personally inspired
and seasonally appropriate."--Mary Sollosi, Entertainment
Weekly
"Janet Fitch's novel shimmers with vital energy...[she] clearly did
an astounding amount of research for the novel, which luxuriates in
exotic period details...The Revolution of Marina M. is hard to put
down...it is charming and lively and ultimately worth the
time."--Trine Tsouderos, Chicago Tribune
"Marina is by turns adventurous, foolish, romantic,
self-destructive and courageous in this extraordinary coming-of-age
tale."--Jane Ciabbatari, BBC Culture
"Marina's unlikely bildungsroman proves so gripping that it's hard
to put down...Fitch depicts [the Revolution] with devastating
accuracy and imaginative power...sprawling, majestic."--Ani
Kokobobo, LA Review of Books
"Sprawling, immersive, and heavily researched."--Steph Cha, USA
Today
"The resilient Marina has much in common with the modern heroines
of the author's previous books and is a protagonist worth
following."--Publishers Weekly
"There's brilliance in this book: concept, structure, style. If the
horrors associated with the Russian revolution freeze your blood,
remember the fire and brimstone of our own Civil War. Read this
novel for the passion of the main character, a girl becoming woman
and poet with ten times the vitality and intellect of Scarlett
O'Hara."--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance,
a Novel of Marie-Antoinette
"This epic tale from the bestselling author of White Oleander
follows Marina Makarova, a young woman living in St. Petersburg at
the start of the Russian Revolution in 1916. Looking to escape from
her privileged life, she joins the marches for worker's rights-and
finds herself falling in love with the movement and a young
radical. In this relatable coming-of-age novel, Marina grapples
with a changing world and struggles to find her place in it."--Nora
Horvath, Real Simple
"This is an epic page-turner of a novel."--Mackenzie Dawson, NY
Post
"This is Janet Fitch at her finest."--Elizabeth Entenman,
HelloGiggles
"This new novel from the author of White Oleander is going to
swallow you up entirely."--Melissa Ragsdale, Bustle
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