Russian Winter, by Daphne Kalotay

Whenever someone asks me for “something good to read,” the first thing that falls out of my mouth is “Russian Winter,” by Daphne Kalotay. 

The central character, Nina Revskaya, captured my heart from the time she auditioned for The Moscow Choreographic School of the Bolshoi Theater as a young child. This was long before she became Russia’s most famous ballerina, who ingeniously defected to the west in the 1950s, leaving everything behind. 

Kalotay’s writing is deliciously infused with clues of what is to come from the very beginning, until the distinctively parallel plotlines of Nina’s present and past expertly entwine until the two collide in revelations that give the heartstrings a solid yank.

The agent representing Russian Winter is Dorian Karchmar from the William Morris Agency

It was published by Harper, Harper Canada

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