<DIV><DIV><P><B><I>A </I></B><B>New York Times </B><B><I>Notable Book of 2007<BR><BR></I></B><B>"A tremendous achievement."--</B><B><I>The Sunday Times </I></B><B>(London)</B></P><P><I>The Whisperers</I> is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent and repressive reign of Josef Stalin. Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, <I>The Whisperers</I> re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another--of the paranoia, alienation, and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations. A panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, <I>The Whisperers</I> is "rigorously compassionate. . . . A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" (<I>The Economist</I>).<BR></P></DIV></DIV>