Traitor

Leningrad, 1952, the next wave of Stalinist repressions swept through the country. Alexey, a talented orthopedic doctor, works in a children"s hospital and specializes in bone diseases. He has a brilliant career ahead. However, when a ten -year -old son of the omnipotent People"s Commissar Volkov with a difficult diagnosis enters the hospital, Alexei is in a difficult situation. His colleagues do not want to contact a dangerous patient and find any prepositions to abandon him, but Alexei, as a professional who took the oath of Hippocrates, cannot leave little Yura without help. The doctor does not have a return journey ...
The novel of the famous English writer Helen Danmore was written in the wake of the infamous "case of doctors"