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02034aam a22002657i 4500 001 8C2BFEDCF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 230817s2024 oru 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9798212227711 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a LITTELL $b Robe 100 1 $a Littell, Robert, $d 1935- $e author. 245 12 $a A plague on both your houses : $b a novel in the shadow of the Russian mafia / $c Robert Littell. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Ashland, OR : $b Blackstone Publishing, $c 2024. 300 $a 219 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceases to exist. Into the vacuum--before a new democracy has time to put down roots--surged the Russian mafia, supplying what the new state could not: krysha, or "roof"--protection for the privately owned businesses sprouting up across the country. Rivalries turned bloody as Moscow's Jewish mafia battled the Ossete vory v zakone (literally "thieves-in-law") for control of the city. Caught up in the mayhem, Yulia, only daughter of the Jewish mafia godfather, and Roman, only son of the Ossete mafia godfather, navigated the minefield of a star-crossed love affair as they attempt to escape a destiny that appears preordained. A Plague on Both Your Houses is the fictional story of one bloody episode in Moscow's Great Turf War, when clans fought brutally in the streets and the future of the Russian nation was anything but assured."--Inside front jacket flap. 650 0 $a Mafia $z Russia $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 2 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240417024021.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240402011820.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8C2BFEDCF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search