Eva Stachniak

The Winter Palace

A novel of the young Catherine the Great

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780552777988
• ISBN-10: 0552777986
• Artikelnr.: 36162377

Autorenporträt

Eva Stachniak was born in Wroclaw, Poland, and now lives in Canada, where she has been a radio broadcaster and college English and humanities lecturer. Her debut novel, Necessary Lies, won the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and her second novel, Dancing with Kings, has been translated into seven languages. She lives in Toronto,where she is working on her second novel about Catherine the Great, also to be published by Doubleday