Description:

The novel is fiction. It takes us into the twilight between nuclear war and an attempt to prevent it. In the resulting shadow a world unfolds in which the past no longer applies. Here a quiet search begins for what is ultimately real, for something that goes deeper than conventions. A multithreaded romance begins with an unfolding sense of humanity that comes to light in the form of a natural universal love and brotherhood. Once the conventional institutions become discredited a new kind of love unfolds that is reflected in the stories of five families; two Russian, one Canadian, one Japanese, and one American. Their stories take us on a voyage across fifteen time zones against a background that is constantly changing. They take us into a New World with a new life in Russia. But soon they find themselves forced to flee their New World in the face of the old mentality that still rules in the background and reasserts itself.