Publisher's Synopsis
His name is Gregori Makarov, and he says he played the accordion as a child before Stalin. He tells of an impossible love story that led him to be interned in a terrible labor camp at Kolyma, one of the most remote and inhospitable places in Siberia, where you didn't get out alive. But he survived, and his life story was told by a journalist, until it was discovered that he had been deceived.