3.23.2012
Heart of Iron
by Ekaterina Sedia, 311 pgs, hardcover
Overall Grade: B
I think part of the reason I adore Sedia's novels is because they're set in Russia (or written from a Russian mindset), which immediately gives them a different taste than what you get from most English writers.
Like many of her other books, 'Heart of Iron' takes place in Russia, this time an alternative Russia where the Decembrist revolution succeeded, the Trans-Siberian railroad is already built and engineers are experimenting with various forms of air transport. Sasha Trubetskaya is invited to be one of the first female students at a St. Petersburg university. There she befriends two other untraditional students, Chiang Tse, from China, and Jack Bartram, from England, and becomes utterly intangled in international relations between their three countries.
Labels: genre: fiction, genre: historical, genre: steampunk, media: book
