![]() ![]() This is due, in part, to a somewhat disordered structure, but the book's bigger problem lies in its unconvincing narrative voice. Unfortunately, despite the upheavals at its core and the promise of mesmerizing delights in its title, Enchantments is less intense and enthralling than Harrison's typical fare. While Alexander's book, like Maria Rasputin's memoirs, focuses on the death of the Mad Monk, Harrison's novel imagines a close relationship between the doomed czarevich and the famous mystic's recently bereft daughter. With Enchantments, Harrison hasn't let Robert Alexander's 2006 novel, Rasputin's Daughter, get in her way. She has also wielded her glinting, unflinching prose in several squirm-inducing historical novels, including Poison, set in 17th-century Spain during the Spanish Inquisition, and The Binding Chair, which takes readers back to the practice of foot-binding in 19th-century China. ![]() Harrison proved herself a fearless writer with The Kiss, an eviscerating memoir about her incestuous affair with her father. And who better, one would think, to capture the blood-soaked snow, the religious fanaticism and the sparkle of jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs than Kathryn Harrison? How?Ī novel about the plight of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution told from the point of view of Rasputin's daughter - the idea seems as delectable as a plate of caviar-topped blinis. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Enchantments Author Kathryn Harrison ![]()
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