Based on the true story of conjoined Russian twins, Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, is a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies.The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep
No one expects Dasha and Masha to live beyond childhood. Not the Soviet scientists who study them, the other ādefectiveā children who bully them, or the āhealthiesā from whom the twins must be locked away.
But they donāt know Masha like her sister does. While Dasha is gentle and quiet and fears everything, her twin is fearless and irrepressible and determined they will survive. Whatever the cost.
Through the seismic shifts of Stalinās communism to the beginnings of Putinās democracy, the sisters strive to be more than just āthe together twinsā, finding hope ā and love ā in the unlikeliest of places.
But strength can come in many different forms and if Dasha is to live more than half a life she must find the courage to emerge from her sisterās shadow.
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