Author: Daphne Kalotay

Nominated By: Ann Dozier

fiction

"When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former Bolshoi ballerina finds herself overwhelmed by memories of the events that changed her life half a century earlier."
I really liked this book: descriptions of what a ballerina's life was like in Moscow under Stalin; goings-on during a modern day jewelry auction; interlinking histories of interesting characters --  all very well researched and well-written.

More: Publishers Weekly