Devil's Acre is a novel about love, Russia and forbidden architecture. Vadim, a young Russian Jew struggles with his passion for Rachel, an American student, and with his dangerous search for the truth about Russia's cultural past. Moscow, 1982. The oppressive Soviet regime is solidly in place; Leonid Brezhnev is praised to the skies for the brilliance of his unreadable memoirs; and the KGB is keeping a watchful eye on the weary and demoralised masses...