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Title: Enchantments
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Kathryn Harrison
Narrator: Julia Emelin, Rustam Kasymov
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-12
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 29 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From Kathryn Harrison, one of Americas most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russias Romanov Empire.
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputins body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at the imperial palace with Tsar Nikolay and his family - including the headstrong Prince Alyosha. Desperately hoping that Masha has inherited Rasputins miraculous healing powers, Tsarina Alexandra asks her to tend to Aloysha, who suffers from hemophilia, a blood disease that keeps the boy confined to his sickbed, lest a simple scrape or bump prove fatal.
Two months after Masha arrives at the palace, the tsar is forced to abdicate, and Bolsheviks place the royal family under house arrest. As Russia descends into civil war, Masha and Alyosha grieve the loss of their former lives, finding solace in each others company. To escape the confinement of the palace, they tell stories - some embellished and some entirely imagined - about Nikolay and Alexandras courtship, Rasputins many exploits, and the wild and wonderful country on the brink of an irrevocable transformation. In the worlds of their imagination, the weak become strong, legend becomes fact, and a future that will never come to pass feels close at hand.
Mesmerizing, haunting, and told in Kathryn Harrisons signature crystalline prose, Enchantments is a love story about two people who come together as everything around them is falling apart.
From the Hardcover edition.
Critic Reviews:
"A sumptuous, atmospheric account of the last days of the Romanovs from the perspective of Rasputins daughter, Enchantments animates a kaleidoscopic breadth of historical detail with the sensuous, transporting prose that is Kathryn Harrisons trademark." (Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad)
"Ask yourself who, in all the world, would be the best novelist to imagine being Rasputins daughter. Kathryn Harrison makes the answer obvious. Her Enchantments is a stupendous work of historical imagination. (Peter Carey, author of Parrot and Olivier in America)
Kathryn Harrison locates within the crevices of history moments of poetry and passion that electrify the reader. In Enchantments, Ms. Harrison takes us on a magic carpet ride to Russia one hundred years ago, and with perfect grace, impeccable style, and great narrative flair, she gives us a whole wounded world that is for the course of this utterly compelling novel as real as our own lives. Actually: more. (Scott Spencer, author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love)
