Astonish Me

Resumen del libro

For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov. After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career.
But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind--a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach.

Biografía del autor

Maggie Shipstead es la autora superventas de las novelas "Seating Arrangements" y "Astonish Me". "El gran círculo", inspirada en la vida de la aviadora Amelia Earhart, es su tercera novela. Ha sido galardonada con el premio Dylan Thomas y el premio del "L.A. Times" a la Primera Obra de Ficción. Se graduó en el Programa de Escritura Creativa de Iowa, ha disfrutado de la beca Wallace Stegner en Stanford, y también ha recibido el apoyo económico del programa nacional estadounidense para el fomento del arte. "El gran círculo" ha sido finalista del premio Booker 2021.<br> <br> Sus textos han aparecido en numerosas publicaciones, incluidos el "The New York Times", el "The Washington Post", "The Guardian", el "Wall Street Journal", "Travel + Leisure", "Departures", "Condé Nast Traveler", "Outside", "The Best American Short Stories" y "The Best American Sports Writing". Vive en Los Ángeles.