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When she decides to auction her remarkable jewellery collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has drawn a curtain on her past. Instead she finds herself over-whelmed by memories of her homeland and of the events that changed the course of her life half a century before.
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"Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story.Graceful, moving and unexpected" (Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club)
"Daphne Kalotay writes about her characters-artists struggling to dream and survive within the constraints of the Stalinist regime-with sensitivity, humor and wisdom. I believed in these characters and cared about their fates. . . . A captivating and entertaining read" (Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
"An impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today" (Guardian)
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"Daphne Kalotay writes about her characters-artists struggling to dream and survive within the constraints of the Stalinist regime-with sensitivity, humor and wisdom. I believed in these characters and cared about their fates. . . . A captivating and entertaining read" (Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love)
"An impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today" (Guardian)
An award-winning novel set in postwar Moscow and modern-day Boston, Russian Winter tells the story of Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya as she becomes a member of Stalin's cultural elite before escaping to the West following a terrible betrayal. Decades later, she has decided to auction off her famed jewelry collection--including the rare set of amber that a Boston professor, Grigori Solodin, translator of the works of Revskaya's late poet-husband, believes may hold the key to a long-kept secret. The literary mystery Grigori sets out to solve--with the help of a young associate at the Boston auction house--reaches much deeper: to the cost of making art and trying to live and love under circumstances of enormous repression.
Russian Winter was a bestseller in North America and has already been translated into 14 languages.
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- PublisherArrow
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0099553244
- ISBN 13 9780099553243
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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Book Description Paperback. When she decides to auction her remarkable jewellery collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has drawn a curtain on her past. Instead she finds herself over-whelmed by memories of her homeland and of the events that changed the course of her life half a century before. It was in Russia that she discovered the magic of the theatre; that she fell in love with the poet Viktor Elsin; that she and her dearest companions, Gersh, a dangerously irreverent composer, and the exquisite Vera became victims of Stalinist aggression. And it was in Russia where a terrible discovery led to a deadly act of betrayal. Now living in Boston, Nina has hidden her dark secrets for half a lifetime. But two people will not let the past rest: Drew Brooks, an in-quisitive young associate director at the Boston auction house; and Grigori Solodin, a Russian professor who believes that a unique set of amber jewels may hold the key to his own ambiguous past. Together, these unlikely partners find themselves unravelling a literary mystery whose answers will hold life-changing consequences for them all. Seller Inventory # 21454407
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