The Circus and the Atom

Next Year's Snow, Book 2

by Joseph Howse

New Year 1988/1989: a theatre student, a taxi driver, a partisan and a crook join a detective's family in Kiev for an ill-fated reunion. They and the Soviet nation face a violent reckoning as old secrets and fugitive hopes emerge. The second novel in the Next Year's Snow series won the World Literature and Audiobook Fiction categories at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award and was a Distinguished Favorite for its cover design. The audiobook is narrated by Annette Chown.