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ORPHAN, AGENT, PRIMA, PAWN
By: Elizabeth Kiem
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 Svetlanaโs 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 worldโone she was trying to escape through dance, the gift sheโs 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 Stalinโs enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her only hope at shedding a tainted family past. When she is invited to join the Bolshoi Balletโthe crown jewel of Russian culture and the pride of the Soviet Unionโher dreams appear to have been realized. But she quickly learns that nobodyโs 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 Motherlandโif she is to surviveโshe 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 thrillingโand surprisingly dangerousโworld of the Dukovskaya ballerinas.
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