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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Gorgito's Ice-Rink

Gorgito's Ice-Rink

Ducie, Elizabeth

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1502864797
ISBN13: 9781502864796
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Oct 30 2014
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A tale of love, loss and broken promises.Two small boys grieving for lost sisters - torn between family and other loves. Can keeping a new promise make up for breaking an old one?When Gorgito Tabatadze sees his sister run off with a soldier, he is bereft. When she disappears into Stalin's Gulag system, he is devastated. He promises their mother on her death-bed he will find the missing girl and bring her home; but it is to prove an impossible quest.Forty years later, Gorgito, now a successful businessman in post-Soviet Russia, watches another young boy lose his sister to a love stronger than family. When a talented Russian skater gets the chance to train in America, Gorgito promises her grief-stricken brother he will build an ice-rink in Nikolevsky, their home town, to bring her home again.With the help of a British engineer, who has fled to Russia to escape her own heartache, and hindered by the local Mayor who has his own reasons for wanting the project to fail, can Gorgito overcome bureaucracy, corruption, economic melt-down and the harsh Russian climate in his quest to build the ice-rink and bring a lost sister home? And will he finally forgive himself for breaking the promise to his mother?A story of love, loss and broken promises. Gorgito's story, told through the eyes of the people whose lives he touched.

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