![]() ![]() Her talent and hard work caused her to rise through the ranks becoming a prima ballerina while still very young. Nina Revskaya was a ballet dancer with the famed Bolshoi Ballet during the Stalin era in the USSR. ![]() And it is the kind of book that really appeals to me containing history and mysterious circumstances together with a modern day romance. ![]() This book was published in 2010 and seems to have gotten a lot of positive press but I had never heard of it. It is another example of book clubs exposing readers to unknown books. My book club chose this for our October 2019 read. This is also as close to romance as I ever get, and it was well done. Nothing is too close, nor too far-fetched. These storylines fit together very well, but the links and connections all work. Drew, in charge of research of the pieces for the auction house. We meet Grigori, adopted in Russia and a child, now a professor of languages at a local university. Then, a matching piece is donated anonymously. Then we have present-day Boston, when one of those dancers, Nina, elderly and wheelchair bound, decides to auction her jewelry collection to raise funds for a local ballet initiative. There are two main storylines-the past, in 1950s USSR, with the Bolshoi ballet, several of the dancers, and their boyfriends/husbands/mothers. I had not heard of this book (pub 2010), though undoubtedly did a quick GR search before buying the hardback. I picked this book up at our local big used book sale, rather randomly, and finally decided to pick it up. ![]()
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