On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, her son Owen Matthews pieces together his grandfather´s passage through the harrowing world of Stalin´s purges, and tells the story of his parents´ Cold War love affair through their heartbreaking letters and memories. Stalin´s Children is a raw, vivid memoir about a young man´s struggle to understand his parents´ lives and the history of the strange country in which they lived.