After the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport literary fiction “Melissa Urban shows the way

“Melissa Urban shows the way forward with clarity

from chocolate to lavender

Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of her generation

the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment

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After the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport literary fiction “Melissa Urban shows the wayA TLS and Prospect Book of the Year. The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in Belle poque Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with only the clothes on their backs. Many came to Frances glittering capital, Paris. Former princes drove taxicabs, while their wives found work in the fashion houses. Some intellectuals, artists, poets,