Dancer

This novel opens on a battlefield trudging back from the front through aravaged and icy wasteland their horses dying around them their own hungerrendering them ... » 

This novel opens on a battlefield trudging back from the front through aravaged and icy wasteland their horses dying around them their own hungerrendering them almost savage the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reachthe city of Ufa desperate for food and shelter. They find both and then musicand dance. And there spinning unafraid among them dancing for the soldiersand anyone else wholl watch him is one small pale boy Rudolf. This is ColumMcCanns Dancer Rudolf a prodigy at six years old who became the greatestdancer of the century who redefined dance rewrote his own life and died ofAIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformedinto extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of hisgeneration. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another inColum McCanns beautiful and daring new novel. «