Wake in Winter

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Nina's graduate program at Moscow University isn't exactly cheap. So when she is offered work translating for Spanish families looking to adopt orphans from the provincial town of Rogozhin, she quickly agrees. Besides the much-needed money it brings, the job is a great opportunity for Nina to use her education to help people in hardship. But soon she finds that nothing is as it seems. By the time Nina realizes that all too often the business of international adoption is not a humanitarian enterprise, she's in too deep. Will she be able to navigate a world of exploitation and political corruption in order to help the children Or should she return to the much simpler world of academia and leave the orphans behind Wake in Winter is a captivating story of one woman's choice in the face of a shattering discovery.

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Nadezhda Belenkaya was born in Moscow and has a degree in Hispanic studies and literary translation from the Gorky Literary Institute. She is the author of more than twenty short stories and novelettes. She has also translated many essays and novels from Spanish to her native Russian. Wake in Winter is Belenkaya's first novel. She currently resides in Moscow.