Bøger af Alla Crone

What attracts most people to read a newly published book? They browse along the colorful bindings in a bookstore, pull out the titles that interest them, and read the summary. Is it a mystery, a historical, a contemporary? Is the setting of interest?Nemesis? Without giving away the secret that is at the heart of the story, you should know that for a long time it casts a dark shadow over the heroine's ability to live a full life after she makes a senseless mistake.This is a story of unforgiving guilt, until an unexpected redemption is offered this Russian woman who lives in Harbin, China, between 1909 and 1939, during the turbulent years of WWI, the fall of Imperial Russia, and emergence of Communist Revolution.

this the story of a stateless Russian woman who sails from Shanghai, newly married to an American army colonel entering the United States for the first time and coping with all the cultural and personal problems that ensue.

Three generationsthey would know the splendors of Imperial Russia, the terror of exile, the Japanese occupation of China, the promise of America, and proof that sometimes a woman must love more than once to find true happiness. Winds Over Manchuria was awarded second place in Biennial Awards of the National League of American Pen Women, who called it ';a thrilling odyssey.... The plot is vivid and intrinsic.'

An epic novel based on the failed Russian revolution attempted by noblemen in December 1825. The leaders were executed, the others exiled. Irina Dolvina follows her husband to Siberia, where she nurses him back to health. Enduring a primitive life through privation and hunger, Irina suffers a shocking betrayal, but her love survives and with it, the promise of a new beginning.

They were natural enemies but for one stolen moment, Svetlana Ozerova found refuge and love in the arms of her captor, the son of a legendary Chinese warlord. They dared to defy tradition and break every rule. Her rescue made them forbidden allies, which brought him a sentence of exile and disgrace. But time forces Svetlana to choose between love and honor, discover the mystery of the Legacy of Amber, and find unexpected happiness.

An epic novel of a woman caught in the turmoil and suffering of the Russian Revolution. With indomitable courage, she would survive the savage ordeal of the Siberian Ice March to find love and make a new life in a world utterly changed. East Lies the Sun was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the West Coast Review of Books.