By Irina Reyn
"The Imperial spouse is a sensible, enticing novel that parallels interesting worlds and singular girls. Irina Reyn writes fantastically of immigrants, paintings and the vagaries of love".
--Jess Walter, nationwide ebook Award finalist and writer of the New York occasions bestseller, Beautiful Ruins
Two women's lives collide while a important Russian artifact involves light.
Tanya Kagan, a emerging professional in Russian paintings at a most sensible ny public sale apartment, is attempting to appeal to Russia's filthy rich oligarchs to bid at the largest sale of her profession, The Order of Saint Catherine, whereas making feel of the surprising and unexplained departure of her husband.
As questions come up over the provenance of the Order and public sale fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the realm of Catherine the good, the notorious 18th-century empress who could have owned the worthy artifact, and who it seems confronted a few of the similar matters Tanya wrestles with in her personal existence.
Suspenseful and wonderfully written, The Imperial Wife asks no matter if we view girl ambition any in a different way this day than we did some time past. Can a modern marriage face up to an “Imperial Wife”?
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