"Warning: You will be awake until 4 a.m. reading Daphne Kalotay's novel, Russian Winter , a work that near seamlessly marries political terror, romance, and questions about love, art, truth, and the risks we are willing to take to protect them." -- The Oregonian   In this national bestseller, a famed ballerina's jewelry auction in Boston reveals long-held secrets of love and family, friendship and rivalry, harkening back to Stalinist Russia. Called "tender, passionate, and moving" by Jenna Blum, New York Times  best-selling author of  Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter  is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Amor Towles ( A Gentleman in Moscow ), Ann Patchett ( Bel Canto ), and Ian McEwan ( Atonement ). "A satisfying mystery with a finely drawn plot..... The secrets at the heart of the novel are treated as delicately, and guarded as carefully, as the precious stones at the story's centre, and only revealed at the novel's satisfying end." -Times Literary Supplement " Russian Winter ... is an impressive debut: intelligent, moving, and flitting seamlessly between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia and the Boston of today." --The Guardian "Each character has a petrified secret. The interlocking plots--the present alternates with Revskaya's youth--build to harrowing betrayals, showing how Soviet Russia was 'rearranged to discourage love for anything other than one's country.'" -- The New Yorker "You will be awake until 4 a.m. reading Daphne Kalotay's debut novel.... [Kalotay] unfurls the plot exquisitely, inching together her three main characters, each trapped, as are the insects in Nina's amber, in their respective stases.... [She] is a spectacular writer: precise, alert, full of movement and air." -- The Oregonian "A suspenseful, elegant novel whose grace matches that of the ballerina whose story lies at its heart." -- Lilith When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former Bolshoi Ballet star finds herself overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed her life half a century earlier. It was in Russia that she discovered the magic of dance and fell in love, and where, faced with Stalinist aggression, a terrible discovery incited a deadly act of betrayal—and an ingenious escape to the West. Nina has kept her secrets for half a lifetime. But now Drew Brooks, an inquisitive associate at a Boston auction house, and Grigori Solodin, a professor who believes Nina's jewels hold the key to unlocking his past, begin to unravel her story—setting in motion a series of revelations that will have life-altering consequences for them all. Daphne Kalotay is the author of the award-winning novel Russian Winter--a national and international bestseller--the award-winning novel Sight Reading , and the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories . She has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, and has taught at Princeton University, Boston University, Skidmore College, Grub Street, and Middlebury College. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her new novel, Blue Hours , will be out in July 2019.