Winds Over Manchuria.

by Alla Crone

FROM THE OPULENT PALACES Of THE TSAR
She was common-born, yet it was Anna Efimova's fate to find forbidden passion at the tsar's court. Her legacy was a whispered warning: Sometimes a woman must love more than once to find true happiness...

THROUGH THE FIRES OF WAR AND REVOLUTION
Gently reared, Nadya was enchanted by the magical St. Petersburg nights...bewitched by the stolen moments in Count Alexei's arms...and unprepared for the heartbreak, for Vadim, the fiery revolutionary she would marry—and lose, so soon....

TO THE TEEMING SHORES OF SHANGHAI AND AMERICA
A beautiful young widow forced to flee Russia, Nadya would be plunged into bitter exile Sustained by a rare courage and the memory of love, she would endure to find safety in Shanghai...to see her own tempestuous daughter Marina embark for America...to find happiness, fulfilling Anna’s promise of enduring love at last.

412 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1983

About the author

Alla Crone was born in Harbin, Manchuria, and grew up there among the White Russian emigres. She lived in China until she was married in Shanghai after World War II, and since then has lived in Germany, Washington. D.C., San Francisco, and Seattle. She now resides in California.

Her research has taken her to Russia and Siberia, and she has drawn on her own and her mother's backgrounds as the setting for both Winds Over Manchuria and her first novel. East Lies the Sun. Fluent in both English and Russian, she has published poetry in Russian, and her articles have appeared in national magazines.

Reviews

[Mariana]

The things I read because my mother grew up in Darien.