by Daphne Kalotay · FRANCE LOISIRS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782298032697
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«Un papillon sous la neige» is the historical fiction novel by Daphne Kalotay, published by France Loisirs in paperback (582 pages, in French).
After retiring, Nina Revskaya, former Bolshoi star, auctions her jewels and relives her youth in Stalinist Russia: the theatre, her love for the poet Viktor Elsin and her friends Gersh and Vera. Drew Brooks, from the auction house, and Professor Grigori Solodin investigate amber jewels that could hide the key to Nina's past.
The work was originally published in English as «Russian Winter». This French edition from France Loisirs bears the mention «Avant premiere» on the cover.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery, and for those who enjoy plots set in the world of ballet and Soviet Russia.
Daphne Kalotay is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is known for her novels, Russian Winter and Sight Reading, and her collection of short stories, Calamity and Other Stories, which was short listed for the 2005 Story Prize. She is a graduate of Vassar College and holds an MA in creative writing and a PhD in literature from Boston University, where she has also taught. In addition, she has taught at Middlebury College and been a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College and Lynchburg College. From 2014 to 2016 she was the Visiting Writer in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a citizen of both the United States and Canada. She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.
