by Daphne Kalotay · Presses de la Cité · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782258081918
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When Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi ballet, decides to auction her remarkable jewelry collection, she believes she has drawn a curtain on her past. Instead, the aged dancer finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland and the events—both glorious and heartbreaking—that changed the course of her life half a century before. Artfully interweaving past and present, Moscow and New England, Daphne Kalotay’s luminous debut novel captures the joy, uncertainty, and terror of lives powerless to withstand the forces of history, while affirming that even in the presence of evil, the human spirit reaches for transcendence and love.
