The Winter Palace

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Stachniak, Stachniak Eva
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.11.2012
• EAN: 9780552777988
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77798-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Russia