Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder is a parable novel, a bizarrely branched family chronicle with many characters and a intricately constructed plot. At the center of the novel are the parallel fates of Jacob Osetsky, a man of books and an intellectual born in the late 19th century, and his granddaughter Nora, a theatrical artist, a willful and active personality. Their acquaintance took place in the early 21st century when Nora read the correspondence between Jacob and her grandmother Maria and gained access to his personal file in the KGB archive… The novel is based on letters from the author's personal archive.