Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay5/8/2023 “Daphne Kalotay’s debut novel about ballet, jewels, love, and betrayal is also a delicious form of time travel. The secrets at the heart of the novel are treated as delicately, and guarded as carefully, as the precious stones at the story’s centre, and only revealed at the novel’s satisfying end.”-Times Literary Supplement “A satisfying mystery with a finely drawn plot. reading Daphne Kalotay’s novel, Russian Winter, a work that near seamlessly marries political terror, romance, and questions about love, art, truth, and the risks we are willing to take to protect them.”-The Oregonian Called “tender, passionate, and moving” by Jenna Blum, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad), Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), and Ian McEwan (Atonement). In Russian Winter, the beautiful debut novel by critically acclaimed writer Daphne Kalotay, a famed ballerina’s jewelry auction in Boston reveals long-held secrets of love and family, friendship and rivalry, harkening back to Stalinist Russia. Winner of the Grace Paley Prize In Kalotay’s luminous collection (after the novel Blue Hours ), characters seek out sources of hope. Graceful, moving, and unexpected.”-Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club When she decides to auction her remarkable jewelry collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi Ballet, believes she has finally drawn a curtain on her past. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern-day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay A mysterious jewel holds the key to a life-changing secret, in this breathtaking tale of love and art, betrayal and redemption. “Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel.
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