"Moscow. After the death of his nuclear-physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, ten-year-old Leon Rozental hides in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment. There he encounters Koba, a high-ranking Soviet officer with disturbing insights into the thoughts and actions of Joseph Stalin."--Provided by publisher.

"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--

A Jewish man plants himself in a lonely Russian baker's house and establishes a family while waiting for permission to go to America.