Encore by Monique Raphel High
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Overview: Monique Raphel High, author of the bestselling The Four Winds of Heaven, has written a romantic new novel set in the special world of the Russian ballet in the years before and during the First World War. Encore is the poignant story of young Natalia Oblonova’s struggle to become a great dancer, and of the two men whose love for her creates bitter conflicts and turbulent passions. In the Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra, at the opulent Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, young Natalia dances her first solo role and captures the hearts of two men.
Count Boris Kussov, an aristocratic patron of the arts, is drawn to Natalia by the promise of her talent, but Pierre Riazhin, a brooding young painter, loves her with a fiery, all consuming passion that she is helpless to resist. Yet even as she gives herself to him on a night of dark despair and sensual abandon, she knows she must deny this love for an even greater passion. Natalia’s dream to dance takes her far from her Crimean homeland to the glittering capitals of Europe, where she becomes a key figure in Serge Diaghilev’s famous Ballets Russes. But her fragile world of grace and beauty is shattered by a Europe plunged into war and Natalia must make a daring journey of escape while members of the Ballets Russes are scattered across the continent.
From elegant Russian palaces to simple peasant villages, from silent hospital wards to noisy Paris bistros, Encore is the story of a woman torn between her desire for passionate fulfillment and her fundamental need to dance. It is the drama of Natalia’s struggle to survive tragic loss and bitter regret to become a prima ballerina for whom the cry “Encore!” is a just tribute to her inner strength and artistic triumph.
Genre: Fiction, Historical
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