Russian Winter
(Harper 2010)
Winner of the Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Award
Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Award
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Set in modern-day Boston and post-WWII Moscow, Russian Winter tells the story of Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya as she becomes part of Stalin’s cultural elite before escaping to the West after a terrible betrayal. Decades later, she is auctioning off her famed jewelry—including a rare set of amber a Boston professor, Grigori Solodin, believes holds the key to a long-kept secret. The literary mystery Grigori sets out to solve—with the help of Drew Brooks, an associate at the auction house—reaches much deeper: to the cost of making art and trying to live and love under circumstances of enormous repression.
A national and international bestseller, Russian Winter won the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Award, was long-listed for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and made it onto a Wall Street Journal “Five Best” list. Russian Winter has been published in 23 foreign editions.