Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey

by Michele Levy

Overview

It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-three-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy. Summer in Europe with a childhood friend offers a perfect way to escape her demons. When her friend abandons her in Italy, Anna makes the rash decision to travel on with strangers. Her journey takes a perilous turn, leading her into conflict in Eastern Europe and into the heart of the Balkans.

Love, Intrigue, Betrayal—Anna must find the strength to survive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684334865
Publisher:	Black Rose Writing
Publication date:	06/25/2020
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	652,721
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Like Anna, Michele Levy was bewitched by Balkan dance in her early twenties and has been captivated by the Balkans ever since. She has traveled there several times and published on their literature, history, and culture. In this debut novel, Michele portrays the special beauty, vibrancy, and complexities of the land and its peoples. And she still delights in dancing to a sinuous rhythm and a strong drumbeat.

Editorial Reviews

"...a highly emotive and character-driven narrative that perfectly captures one young woman's experience of coming of age." -Readers' Favorite

"...absolutely compelling reading replete with cultural and psychological insights alike." -Midwest Book Review

"Anna's Dance: A Balkan Odyssey is an ambitious undertaking. Rich with drama and passion, it's a poignant story of love and misadventure..." -The Manhattan Review

"A beautiful story of finding love and self-acceptance, masterfully woven onto a backdrop of a centuries-old struggle for cultural identity." -Pamela Taylor, author of the Second Son Chronicles

"This is a Romantic tale of passion, commitment, and danger, a thriller that you will not want to put down." -Valerie Nieman, author of To the Bones and Blood Clay

"...a grim but hopeful reminder of the constancy of civil unrest and the fight of the underdog for a fairer world." -World Literature Today

From the Publisher

…absolutely compelling reading replete with cultural and psychological insights alike. Levy does an outstanding job of capturing not just historical setting, injecting a "you are there" feel to the environment surrounding Anna, but the social, political, and psychological currents of the times.

Midwest Review - D. Donovan

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