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It is pointed out in the passage that, when the German siege of Leningrad began, ----.
Set in 1941 in Leningrad, Helen Dunmore's novel
The Siege opens with deceptively gentle scenes of
Chekhovian melancholy. After the death of her
mother, 23-year-old Anna Levin, the protagonist,
gives up her artistic studies to look after her 5-yearold
brother and her politically suspect father
Abraham, who, as a writer, has fallen out of favour
with Stalin's cultural police. So she jumps at the
chance to make a drawing of the retired actress
Marina Petrovna, with whom Anna's father might
once have had a romantic relationship. But Anna's
worries about art and romance are soon swept away
as the Germans besiege her native city. At this point,
Dunmore's novel transforms abruptly as well, shifting
from a romantic narrative into a study of survival
under most extreme hardships. Anna's abundant
artistic creativity is put to use providing food and fuel
for her helpless family, and her drawing skills are
called on to sketch a neighbour's starved baby so
that the grieving mother might remember her lost
child. Indeed, the novel presents a striking contrast
between the gentle display of human emotions and
the rude dictates of survival under the most inhuman
circumstances.