GIVEAWAY ENDEDRUSSIAN WINTER
BY DAPHNE KALOTAY
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In Russian Winter, the beautiful debut novel by critically acclaimed writer Daphne Kalotay, 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, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad), Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), and Ian McEwan (Atonement).
“Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern-day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving, and unexpected.”
—Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Daphne Kalotay grew up in New Jersey, where her parents had relocated from Ontario; her mother is Canadian, her father is Hungarian. She attended Vassar College, majoring in psychology, before moving to Boston to attend Boston University's graduate program in fiction writing. She stayed on at BU to study with Saul Bellow as part of the University Professors program, where she earned a PhD in Modern and Contemporary literature, writing her dissertation on one of her favorite writers, Mavis Gallant. Her interview with Mavis Gallant can be found in the Paris Review's Writers-at-work series.
At Boston University, Daphne's stories won the school's Florence Engell Randall Fiction Prize and a Henfield Foundation Award. Her first book, the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories, includes work first published in Agni, Good Housekeeping, The Literary Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner, and was short-listed for the Story Prize.
In Russian Winter, the beautiful debut novel by critically acclaimed writer Daphne Kalotay, 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, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us, Russian Winter is a perfect choice for fans of the novels of Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad), Ann Patchett (Bel Canto), and Ian McEwan (Atonement).
“Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern-day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving, and unexpected.”
—Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Daphne Kalotay grew up in New Jersey, where her parents had relocated from Ontario; her mother is Canadian, her father is Hungarian. She attended Vassar College, majoring in psychology, before moving to Boston to attend Boston University's graduate program in fiction writing. She stayed on at BU to study with Saul Bellow as part of the University Professors program, where she earned a PhD in Modern and Contemporary literature, writing her dissertation on one of her favorite writers, Mavis Gallant. Her interview with Mavis Gallant can be found in the Paris Review's Writers-at-work series.At Boston University, Daphne's stories won the school's Florence Engell Randall Fiction Prize and a Henfield Foundation Award. Her first book, the fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories, includes work first published in Agni, Good Housekeeping, The Literary Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner, and was short-listed for the Story Prize.
Daphne has taught literature and creative writing at Boston University, Skidmore College, and Middlebury College. She lives in the Boston area.
You can find Daphne on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Daphne-Kalotay/113099712053156?ref=ts
BLOG TOUR: The Blog Tour for this Fabulous Book includes the following sites so please visit them to see all they have to say about this WONDERFUL BOOK!
ABOUT MY REVIEW: As written in "Oprah" this month, RUSSIAN WINTER is one of the "10 Books to Pick Up in September 2010". The article gives a great group of reading discussion questions and if you are interested, might want to check them out HERE (be careful of spoilers within the questions)
I loved this book and have to be fair and honest with my followers. I JUST finished this on my plane ride home as I have been away as most of you who follow know, and SO rather than scribble my thoughts on a book worthy of a much better treatment than that, I shall continue with my post on RUSSIAN WINTER later tonight/tomorrow so please check back and see "MY Review" AND watch for some Bonus Entries. When added to the Author Interview coming up soon, you will have many chances to get your hands on a copy of this truly amazing book...I couldn't put it down but was forced to as a four-month-old wasn't into reading so my grandson did come first this past week (are you surprised? I bet not!) Check back later...don't forget! Thank you!
You can find Daphne on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/
BLOG TOUR: The Blog Tour for this Fabulous Book includes the following sites so please visit them to see all they have to say about this WONDERFUL BOOK!
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ABOUT MY REVIEW: As written in "Oprah" this month, RUSSIAN WINTER is one of the "10 Books to Pick Up in September 2010". The article gives a great group of reading discussion questions and if you are interested, might want to check them out HERE (be careful of spoilers within the questions)
I loved this book and have to be fair and honest with my followers. I JUST finished this on my plane ride home as I have been away as most of you who follow know, and SO rather than scribble my thoughts on a book worthy of a much better treatment than that, I shall continue with my post on RUSSIAN WINTER later tonight/tomorrow so please check back and see "MY Review" AND watch for some Bonus Entries. When added to the Author Interview coming up soon, you will have many chances to get your hands on a copy of this truly amazing book...I couldn't put it down but was forced to as a four-month-old wasn't into reading so my grandson did come first this past week (are you surprised? I bet not!) Check back later...don't forget! Thank you!
GIVEAWAY
THANKS TO MARK AND MY FRIENDS
AT HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING,
I HAVE 3 COPIES OF THIS EXCITING
NEW BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
AT HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING,
I HAVE 3 COPIES OF THIS EXCITING
NEW BOOK TO GIVE AWAY.
--U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!
HOW TO ENTER:
+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR, DAPHNE KALOTAY
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!
HOW TO ENTER:
+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WIN A COPY OF THIS BOOK AND SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR, DAPHNE KALOTAY
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BONUS ENTRIES: WATCH FOR THE AUTHOR INTERVIEW IN A FEW DAYS AND COMMENT THERE TO GAIN EXTRA BONUS ENTRIES!
+1 MORE ENTRY: BLOG OR TWEET ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY AND LEAVE A LINK I CAN FOLLOW IN THE ENTRY
BONUS ENTRIES: WATCH FOR THE AUTHOR INTERVIEW IN A FEW DAYS AND COMMENT THERE TO GAIN EXTRA BONUS ENTRIES!
