The Last Russian Doll
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A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls.
One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother.
Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand—and bury—the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed with little more than her mother’s strange folklore—and a single key.
What she uncovers is a devastating family history that spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin’s purges, and beyond.
At the heart of this saga stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions—and love for an idealistic man—will set off a sweeping story that reverberates across the century....
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Kristen Loesch. (2023). The Last Russian Doll. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kristen Loesch. 2023. The Last Russian Doll. Penguin Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kristen Loesch, The Last Russian Doll. Penguin Publishing Group, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kristen Loesch. The Last Russian Doll. Penguin Publishing Group, 2023.
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- EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.
In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls.
One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother.
Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand—and bury—the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed with little more than her mother’s strange folklore—and a single key.
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Following Hargrave's adult debut, the Betty Trask honoree The Mercies, The Dance Tree spins off from real-life events as it visits 1518 Strasbourg, France, where women have begun dancing wildly in the town square and provoked a state of emergency (40,000-copy first printing). Opening in a fishing village in British colonial--ruled Singapore, Suicide Club author Heng's The Great Reclamation features a sweet boy with an extraordinary gift--he sees shifting islands no one else can--who comes of age during the Japanese occupation and, with a neighborhood girl, ends up remapping the future (75,000-copy first printing). Following the multi-best-booked Yellow Wind, Johnson's The House of Eve intertwines the stories of two young Black women--15-year-old Ruby, whose college ambitions are threatened by an ill-advised affair, and Howard University student Eleanor, looking for acceptance from her boyfriend's elite Black family. In Loesch's debut, The Last Russian Doll, a Russian �migr� studying at Oxford returns to Moscow after her mother's death and uncovers a family tragedy stretching back to the 1917 Revolution. A prize winner in Germany and a publishing phenomenon there and in the UK, where Berlin-based British-Ghanian Otoo is a Cambridge writer in residence, Ada's Room features four Adas: a 15th-century West African woman who confronts a Portuguese slave trader, Victorian England's Ada Lovelace, a Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp inmate, and a contemporary resident of Berlin, connected to them all in spirit. Following The Yellow Bird Sings, a National Jewish Book Award finalist, Rosner's Once We Were Home builds on real-life events to tell the stories of Jewish children wrenched from their families during World War II--like Ana, who remembers the mother who smuggled her out of a Polish ghetto, and Ana's brother, who knows only the family who raised him. In Spence-Ash's Beyond That, the Sea, Bea Thompson is sent from bomb-blasted World War II London to live in safety with a family in Boston, MA, and becomes so contented with her new life that she is reluctant to return home (150,000-copy first printing). From the No. 1 New York Times best-selling Walls, Hang the Moon follows the life of feisty young Sallie Kincaid, daughter of the big man about town in Prohibition-era Virginia, who's back home to reclaim her place nine years after being ejected from the family. The USA Today best-selling Webb's Strangers in the Night replays the romance between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner (100,000-copy paperback and 30,000-copy hardcover first printing). In Two Wars and a Wedding, the New York Times best-selling Willig follows aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes from 1896 Greece, where she ends up tending the wounded as fighting breaks out with Turkey, and 1898 Cuba, where she serves with the Red Cross during the Spanish American War, hoping to find a lost friend (75,000-copy first printing).
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Loesch’s emotionally rich debut follows a woman seeking to uncover family secrets. In 1991 London, Rosie White, an Oxford postgrad, gets a position as a summer research assistant in Moscow. Before Rosie leaves, her mother gives her a key, once hidden in a porcelain doll, to open a drawer in the family’s Moscow home, which they fled from 14 years earlier after Rosie’s older sister and her father were murdered. In Moscow, Rosie finds a map in the drawer to a house called Otrada in Tula Province. In a parallel narrative set in 1917 Russia, early in the revolution, a young woman named Tonya marries wealthy factory owner Dmitry Lulikov, but becomes pregnant by a Bolshevik revolutionary. When Dmitry prevents Tonya from seeing her lover, she and her daughter return to her former home in Otrada. Loesch moves seamlessly between the expansive dual timelines, slowly establishing the connections between Rosie’s quest to solve the mystery of her family’s murders and Tonya’s efforts to survive the Bolshevik Revolution. Historical fiction fans will love this. Agent: Stephanie Abou, Massie McQuilkin Literary.
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When Oxford graduate student Rosie White becomes a research assistant to famed Russian dissident Alexey Ivanov, her motives are not just scholarly. As a child, Raisa, as she was then known, and her mother fled Russia after the murders of her father and sister. When she's not helping Ivanov search for a mysterious woman known only as Kukolka, or little doll, Rosie hopes to learn the full story behind her own family tragedy. Armed with a book of Russian fairy tales and a key to a locked drawer, deathbed gifts from her troubled mother, Rosie soon discovers that her two research projects intersect in some surprising and sinister ways. Spanning Russian history, from the 1917 Russian Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, Loesch's ambitious debut novel intertwines Rosie's present-day narrative with those of Tonya, a newly married noblewoman, and Valentin, a young revolutionary. Loesch's knowledgeable and detailed depictions of the Siege of Leningrad and Soviet labor camps and extensive cast of characters can be a bit challenging, but ultimately, all comes together in this powerfully affecting tale.COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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DEBUT Rosie, an Oxford student, is to marry and enter a rewarding life. Instead, in a desperate compulsion, she takes a summer job in Moscow as an assistant to a hugely popular Russian author. Why? After her father and sister were shot in an unsolved killing in the family home in Moscow, Rosie and her mother found safe haven in England, but her mother has recently died, deranged with alcohol and terror. She leaves for Rosie a porcelain doll and some fairy tales. Rosie means to track down her father and sister's killer and put the ghosts to rest. In a twisting timeline, Rosie's story in 1991 loops back and forth with that of Tonya, her grandmother, beginning in 1915. At heart, this debut novel is a historical romance of young lovers united in revolution and in bed but thrashed by cruel fates time and again. VERDICT Loesch's writing can be lyrically evocative. Many red herrings and detours mar the story's momentum so that the strong opening pages fade to a m�lange of thriller, mystery, and fantasy.--Barbara Conaty
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In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land...
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One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother.
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