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Bolshoi Saga #3
Soho Teen
September 2017
On Sale: August 22, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 1616956550
EAN: 9781616956554
Kindle: B01NBD6GSB
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Young Adult Suspense | Young Adult
Moscow, 1958: sixteen-year-old ballerina Svetlana’s
dreams come true when she is invited to join the Bolshoi
Ballet, but not is all as it seems. Now Svetlana is caught
between the sinister worlds of very powerful people in the
regime and the KGB, and the other world—one she was trying
to escape through dance, the gift she’s been afraid of her
entire life. The Bolshoi Saga: Svetlana is the third and final book in
the series that is described as a feminist take on The
Godfather, set in the world of Russian ballet. The year is 1958, and sixteen-year-old Svetlana is stuck in
a Moscow orphanage designated for the unwanted children of
Stalin’s enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her
only hope at shedding a tainted family past. When she is
invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet—the crown jewel of
Russian culture and the pride of the Soviet Union—her dreams
appear to have been realized. But she quickly learns that
nobody’s past or secrets are safe. The dreaded KGB knows about the mysterious trances Sveta has
suffered, inexplicable episodes that seem to offer glimpses
of the past. Some very powerful people believe Sveta is
capable of serving the regime as more than a ballerina, and
they wish to recruit her to spy on the West as part of the
nascent Soviet psychic warfare program. If she is to erase
the sins of her family, if she is to dance on the world
stage for the Motherland—if she is to survive—she has no
choice but to explore her other gift. The story of teenage Svetlana, matriarch of three
generations of ballerinas, is both the end and the beginning
of the Bolshoi Saga. This title, and the debut, Dancer,
Daughter, Traitor, Spy and its follow up, Hider,
Seeker, Secret, Keeper can all be read as stand-alone
novels, although reading all three will provide a deeper
understanding of the often thrilling—and surprisingly
dangerous—world of the Dukovskaya ballerinas.
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