The Bolshevik Revolution forced the principles Korolev in a stampede in a territory through war. Nick and his twin brother Rudi are just children, but the blind fury of the opponents of the Tsarist regime not spared them. Nicki, which bears the name of the last czar, his godfather at the baptism, miraculously escapes the carnage when his mother dies and you lose track of the small Rudi. Nicki, her father, her sister Galina and Uncle Igor can sail to the West, beginning with their lives of Russian exiles. The principles Korolev, hovering between the magnificence of the past and a present in which the ancient Russian noble class ended to serve the wealthy Europeans, settled in Paris where he found a large community of Russian asylum. Galina became a dancer of international fame and Nicki, thanks to his Swiss nationality, is a Red Cross official and employee searches for missing Russians. In a devastated Paris Nazi invasion Nicki Tasha meets the beautiful, the controversial love of his life and continues the search for the missing sister. One day a newspaper clipping reveals that Rudi, his brother, was not as lucky as he remained in Russia and has lived on their skin all the contradictions of the new regime. Unfortunately life is not easy even in Paris, because at the center of disputes and international alliances, the Russians are not welcome nor the French nor the Germans.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: an extraordinarily well-written novel, I was fascinated with the placid atmosphere of Paris, beautiful and fascinating even if it is threatened by war. Even in this novel the protagonist is in contact with a famous artist, is the writer Ernest Hamingwai who was then U.S. envoy in the war zone. The score is not that I gave up because at this point I do not know what to expect from the other novels by this author. They will all be so beautiful?
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