The True Memoirs of Little K: A Novel

A California Book Award Finalist

One of Oprah's Book Club's Ten Fantastic Books for Fall 2010

Historical Novel Review Editors' Choice

Exiled in Paris, the frail, elderly Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Kschessinska's riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersection of the Russian court an...