{"product_id":"book-1xoe","title":"PURGA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePURGA\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA TRUE STORY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreedom and danger often wear the same face.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA purga is not an ordinary snowstorm. Born from the Arctic winds, it arrives without warning - blinding, disorientating, changing the landscape overnight. You do not conquer a purga. You endure it. You adapt. You learn to walk through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome storms happen outside. Others become part of who you are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Olga Pavlova, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eIce, Lies and Old Advice\u003c\/em\u003e, comes an unforgettable memoir of childhood, survival and the final years of a vanished world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Leningrad in 1983 and raised above the Arctic Circle in Murmansk, Olga belonged to the last generation of Soviet children - born into a superpower that vanished before they were old enough to understand what was disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer childhood existed between extremes: Arctic winters and endless summer light, frozen lakes and wild forests, Soviet courtyards where neighbours became family and an entire building helped raise a child. It was chaotic. It was dangerous. And it was freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut beyond the courtyard, history was moving. The Soviet Union collapsed, and with it the rules that had governed millions of lives. Collective security gave way to uncertainty. Trust gave way to fear. Childhood games unfolded beside crime, poverty and a society rebuilding itself from the ruins of an empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Murmansk to St Petersburg, from innocence to teenage survival, Olga's journey captures a lost world seen not through presidents or politics, but through the eyes of a girl growing up inside the storm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a mother and daughter who lost almost everything except their determination to continue. Of finding beauty among hardship. Of discovering that home is not always somewhere you can return to - sometimes it is something you carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually, Olga's journey would take her to London and a new life. But the Arctic never truly leaves those who grow up inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe purga remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67150969110832,"sku":"BD1xoe","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1xoe-Square-cover.png?v=1782495401","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1xoe","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}