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The Mirrored World (2012)

by Debra Dean(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061231452 (ISBN13: 9780061231452)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harper Collins

review 1: How many ways are lives mirrored in the world of Catherine the Great's royal court? Perhaps it's not only outward lives that are mirrored, but inward as well. Perhaps the mirror of life is a dream. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately at times), mirrors do distort the reality. Ann Hood's blurb on the back of the book jacket describes the novel well: "The Mirrored World explores the mysteries of love and grief and devotion. Against a vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg and Catherine the Great's royal court, the woman who would become St. Xenia is brought fully to life. Is there a more imaginative, elegant storyteller than Debra Dean?"
review 2: 3 1/2 stars. A novel of love and madness set in 18th century Russia. Set in St. Petersburg during the ... morereign of Catherine the Great, the author tells of the life of St. Xenia, one of Russia’s most revered and mysterious holy figures. The historical fiction recounts the unlikely transformation of a young girl, a child of privilege, into a saint beloved by the poor. Slow at times, but interesting. less

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