![]() Long-listed for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Russian Winter has been published in 23 foreign editions. The literary mystery Grigori sets out to solve-with the help of Drew Brooks, 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.Ī national and international bestseller, Russian Winter won the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Award, was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel competition, and made it onto a Wall Street Journal “Five Best” list. ![]() Kalotay makes a powerful debut with a novel about a Soviet-era prima ballerina, now retired and. Lisa Verge Higgins, New York Journal of Books Daphne Kalotay’s characters are fully developed, believable and authentic. ![]() ![]() 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. Daphne Kalotay, Harper, 25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-196216-5. Kindle 13.99 Rate this book Russian Winter Daphne Kalotay 3.75 9,908 ratings1,342 reviews Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston. Russian Winter is a suspenseful, thoughtful, and engrossing tale of emotionally compelling characters-a remarkable debut by a gifted author. Set in both modern-day Boston and post-WWII Moscow, 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. ![]()
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