Name: Red Snow: A Life That Was Not Remembered (The Temporary Arrangements Series)
SKU: 68927227
Price: 279.00 ZAR
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Author: Clayton, Ralph
ISBN: 9798173496102

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Red Snow: A Life That Was Not Remembered (The Temporary Arrangements Series)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Clayton, Ralph

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798173496102

Red Snow: A Life That Was Not Remembered (The Temporary Arrangements Series)

Clayton, Ralph (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "Red Snow: A Life That Was Not Remembered (The Temporary Arrangements Series)"

In a remote village near Lake Baikal, winter is not simply a season. It is a presence. Snow buries the roads, cold enters through the walls, and hunger makes every decision smaller. For families already living on the edge, survival leaves little room for childhood. Dmitry learns early that endurance is not the same thing as hope. As poverty pushes him farther from the life he once knew, he is drawn into a world of criminal work, institutions, hard labor, illness, and the quiet machinery of a society that rarely notices the people it consumes. From the frozen settlements of Siberia to the streets of Ulan-Ude and Krasnoyarsk, Dmitry keeps moving because standing still is often worse. There are moments of friendship. Moments of warmth. A meal shared. A room for the night. A human voice in the cold. But small mercies do not always change the direction of a life. RED SNOW is a stark literary novel about poverty, circumstance, and the limits of individual choice. It follows one boy into adulthood as the possibilities around him steadily narrow, not because of a single terrible decision, but because of thousands of ordinary forces: money, class, geography, institutions, history, hunger, weather, and chance. This is not a story about a chosen one. It is not a story about escaping everything that shaped you. It is the story of an ordinary human being trying to live inside circumstances he did not choose. Atmospheric, uncompromising, and deeply human, RED SNOW explores what happens when survival becomes a way of life, when hardship is inherited like a family name, and when hope itself becomes something too expensive to depend upon. Some people change the world. Others simply endure it. And sometimes, that is the whole story.