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Harper Perennial
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
496 pages
ISBN: 0061962171
EAN: 9780061962172
Hardcover
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Fiction
A mysterious jewel holds the key to a life-changing secret,
in this breathtaking tale of love and art, betrayal and
redemption. When she decides to auction her remarkable jewelry
collection, Nina Revskaya, once a great star of the Bolshoi
Ballet, believes she has finally drawn a curtain on her
past. Instead, the former ballerina finds herself
overwhelmed by memories of her homeland and of the events,
both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed the course of
her life half a century ago. It was in Russia that she discovered the magic of the
theater; that she fell in love with the poet Viktor Elsin;
that she and her dearest companions—Gersh, a brilliant
composer, and the exquisite Vera, Nina’s closest
friend—became victims of Stalinist aggression. And it was in
Russia that a terrible discovery incited a deadly act of
betrayal—and an ingenious escape that led Nina to the West
and eventually to Boston. Nina has kept her secrets for half a lifetime. But two
people will not let the past rest: Drew Brooks, an
inquisitive young associate at a Boston auction house, and
Grigori Solodin, a professor of Russian who believes that a
unique set of jewels may hold the key to his own ambiguous
past. Together these unlikely partners begin to unravel a
mystery surrounding a love letter, a poem, and a necklace of
unknown provenance, setting in motion a series of
revelations that will have life-altering consequences for
them all.
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