This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
WINTER GARDEN. Copyright © 2010 by Kristin Hannah.
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Excerpts from “Requiem 1935–1940” and “We Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye” from Poems of Akhmatova, selected, translated, and introduced by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward © 1967, 1968, 1972, 1973 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward, originally published by Little Brown and currently available from Mariner Books. Reprinted with permission by Darhansoff Verrill Feldman Literary Agents.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hannah, Kristin.
Winter garden / Kristin Hannah.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-36412-0
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Russian Americans—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A4763W56 2010
813'.54—dc22
2009039230
First Edition: February 2010
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