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"The Imperial Wife is a smart, engaging novel that parallels two fascinating worlds and two singular women. Irina Reyn writes beautifully of immigrants, art and the vagaries of love."--Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful RuinsTwo women's lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century empress who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life.
About the Author
Irina Reyn is the author of two novels, THE IMPERIAL WIFE and WHAT HAPPENED TO ANNA K. She is also a big fan of New Jersey, as evident from her anthology, LIVING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: NEW JERSEY WRITERS TAKE ON THE GARDEN STATE.Irina immigrated to the United States from Moscow when she was seven years old, and has been writing about it in one way or another ever since. Visit her website at www.irinareyn.com.
