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Follow on Google News | ‘Paris is now Russia out of Russia’Year of Night by Kate Beswick is the story of a young Russian émigré and her struggle to free herself from a net of conflicting loyalties, passions and betrayal in 1920’s Paris
Nadia befriends Arensky, a former White general, secretly creating an anti-Bolshevik force; at the same time, she meets Alyosha, who dreams of uniting both Reds and Whites. Her relationship with Igor becomes more intense; she becomes his muse and then his mistress, although he flaunts his relationship with his former lover. As the ‘Moscow’ organisation increase pressure for action, and violence stalks the streets of Paris, Nadia realises she might be at the centre of a web not of her making. For who is Igor really? And what are his real intentions? “I have been in love with the Russian language and Russian literature since I was a teenager. I was working on another novel when I had an image of a young girl in a railway station. The picture my imagination threw up was so vivid that I had to start writing about her, to find out who she was and how she got there. This led to a year of reading, researching, and exploring Paris, while the story grew. I was not only exploring my roots; I was inventing them. This is the first book I have written that was set in a period outside my own, and I was enthralled by the idea of living in the past and making it present,” Kate Beswick was born in Los Angeles. She was educated at Smith College and Middlesex University, where she won the short story prize awarded by Shena MacKay. She was an actress for many years on and off Broadway, the National Theatre, the West End and on television. She won the Litchfield-Time Warner novel prize awarded by the late Dame Beryl Bainbridge. Kate now splits her time between London and County Cork. PUBLISHED JULY 2013 eISBN: 9781780885988 Price: £3.99 End
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