En el inclemente coraz n de Siberia, dentro de uno de los cientos de campos de trabajo forzado que el r gimen estalinista ha instalado por todo el pa s, Ariadna Efron padece lo que ella cree que ser el ltimo a o de una condena absurda. Su crimen, ser hija de Sergu i Efron -supuesto doble agente de la polic a secreta que, dicen, particip en un atentado pol tico-, y de la gran poeta Marina Tsvet ieva -quien ha elegido para s el sublime destino de ser un esp ritu libre, motivo suficiente para que el Estado la censure-. Sin embargo, Ariadna no sospecha que a n le queda un largo camino por recorrer en el sistema de reeducaci n del Estado sovi tico, tampoco que tendr que asumir la tarea de reivindicar la obra de su madre, y menos que el amor la salvar de un destino gris.
Basada en hechos reales y otros ficcionalizados, Desde el coraz n siberiano entrelaza la historia de Ariadna Efron y su madre, Marina Tsvet ieva, una de las m s grandes poetas que ha dado Rusia; pero es tambi n la historia de una poca signada por la desgracia, la traici n, la locura y la sinraz n, donde s lo el amor, en todas sus formas, ser capaz de transformar su sino.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A novel about Ariadna Efron and her mother, Marina Tsvetaeva.
Soviet Union, 1947. In the inclement heart of Siberia, inside one of the hundreds of forced-labor camps that the Stalinist regime has established around the country, Ariadna Efron endures what she believes will be the last year of an absurd sentence. Her crime: being the daughter of Sergei Efron--the supposed double agent of the secret police who allegedly participated in a political attack--and of Marina Tsvetaeva--who chose for herself the sublime destiny of being a free spirit, which is enough of a motive to be censured by the State. Nevertheless, Ariadna doesn't suspect that she still has a long way to go in the re-education system of the Soviet state, or that she will have to take on the task of defending her mother's work, much less that love will save her from a grim destiny. Based on real and fictionalized events, From the Heart of Siberia intertwines the story of Ariadna Efron and her mother, Marina Tzvetaeva, one of the greatest poets that Russia has produced. It is also the story of an era marked by disgrace, betrayal, madness, and injustice, where only love, in all its forms, is capable of transforming its fate.