Böcker av Jan Elpel

Jessica Svetlana Gilkova discovers that pseudonyms are passportsto the world, poetry becomes the song of dissidents, and fashionis the language of freedom when the true self is denied. Drawninto the underworld of the Society of Poets by poet Alexsei, shebecomes suspicious of his carefree life. She finds mysterious missionsof dissidents caught in Cold War Russia threaten her hautecouture boutique in Leningrad, that repression forces people andrelationships to hide behind personas and facades.Meanwhile Viktor champions Jessica, a woman entrepreneur,while one of his stated desires is to obtain a fiery opal pendantformerly owned by the nobility. Overcoming denial and intrigue,she discovers he is a man with a mission