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Kyiv, 1938. The world is in the throes of a great war, and the Soviet Union is in the throes of brutal repression. For the slightest suspicion of disloyalty to the Stalinist regime, people were taken away and shot, and their families were sent to camps.
Maryna is a Kyivan, her husband was shot on the denunciation of a colleague, and she herself found herself in inhumane conditions in faraway Kazakhstan in the Akmola camp for wives of traitors.
The camp is located in the steppe, where prisoners freeze in winter and suffocate from the heat and sandy winds in summer. They work as forced labourers, harvesting reeds up to their knees in water, which are then used to make adobe bricks.
It is there that Marina learns about hard work, atrocities and rape, as well as friendship, humanity and hope. She will either stop fighting, give up, or cling to life with renewed vigour. And the day will come when Maryna will live to see her liberation and try to fulfil her promises to the people she loves."
While writing the novel, the author relied on historical sources and truthfully depicted the life of women in the camp. "Three Promises is a novel not only about terrible trials, but also about life contrary to the plans of the Soviet leaders.
