Russian Winter
  • Published: 31 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448135516
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Russian Winter

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31 Mar 2012
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15 Jan 2012
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A story of passion, envy and betrayal set against the backdrop of Stalin's brutal regime

Praise for Russian Winter

'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

'A tender and moving debut novel' - Candis Magazine

'An impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today' - Guardian

'A memorable love story cleverly disguised as historical fiction' - Red Magazine

'Part romance, part mystery, this elegant debut captures the danger - and refuge - of love in Stalin's era' - Good Housekeeping
  • Published: 31 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448135516
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Daphne Kalotay

Daphne Kalotay is the author of Calamity and Other Stories, published by Doubleday in 2005 to much critical acclaim. She has an MA from Boston University's Creative Writing Program and a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping and many literary magazines, and she has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Fondation de La Napoule, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; she is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College. Daphne has taught creative writing at Boston University, Middlebury College and Skidmore College, and lives in the Boston area.

Praise for Russian Winter

A memorable love story cleverly disguised as historical fiction

Red Magazine

A tender and moving debut novel

Candis Magazine

An impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today

Guardian

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

Part romance, part mystery, this elegant debut captures the danger - and refuge - of love in Stalin's era

Good Housekeeping

Highly readable saga... for serious balletomanes.

Independent