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In my eyes she had always been old always been mine always been Granny Dan.But in another time another place there had been dancing people laughterlove. . . . She had had another life before she came to us long before shecame to me. . . .She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian loved to rollerskate and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died all thatremained was a box wrapped in brown paper tied with string. Inside an oldpair of satin toe shoes a gold locket and a stack of letters tied withribbon. It was her legacy her secret past waiting to be discovered by thegranddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waitingto be told. . . .The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrivedat a ballet school in St. Petersburg Russia at the age of seven. By ageseventeen Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina a favorite of theCzar and Czarina who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. Butevents both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war anextraordinary man and a devastating illness altered the course of her life.And when revolution shattered Russia Danina Petroskova was forced to make aheartbreaking choiceas the world around her was about to change forever.Granny Dan is about the magic of history. In it Danielle Steel reminds us howlittle we know of those who came before usand how if we could only glimpseinto their early lives and see who they once were there is so much we wouldunderstand and learn. For in this extraordinary novel a simple box filledwith mementos from a grandmother offers the greatestlegacy of all anunexpected gift of a life transformed a longforgotten history of youth andbeauty love and dreams.From the Hardcover edition. «
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