In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determ[...]

The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard[...]

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"Part love story, part history, this novel is a tour de force told] in language that soars and sears."--"More"
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin's body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live[...]

Det är 1917 i Sankt Petersburg. Tsaren har avsatts och i Alexanderpalatset väntar tsarfamiljen Romanov oroligt på bolsjevikernas nästa steg. Rasputin, den karismatiske predikanten som varit tsaritsans helare och förtrogna, har mördats. Hans dotter Masja hämtas till palatset - kanske hon har s[...]