Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
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1956. Khrushchev’s Thaw triggersthe Hungarian Revolution and upheaval in the Soviet Empire. During Khrushchev’sstate visit to Helsinki, Dosha, star rider of the Soviet Dressage Team and herhorse defect. The novel follows the life of Dosha, a Gypsy in disguise. Itoffers unique insight into the tribal life of nomadic Gypsies, who under Stalinjoined partisans fighting Nazi invaders, only to face entrapment during Khrushchev’sThaw. By then Dosha and her talented circus horse have been drafted into thedressage team in Leningrad. Navigating political intrigue, narrowly escapingdiscovery by the KGB, she enters a love forbidden to Gypsy women. One goalremains uppermost in her mind-- leading her tribe and her horse to freedom inthe West.
