Dancer

The novel opens on a battlefield with Russian soldiers exhausted and hungry. They find food, shelter, and music and dance, including a young boy named Rudolf who becomes the greatest dancer of the century. This is an extraordinary life transformed into fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 03 September 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Remarkable ... nimble,lyrical and wispy
Sunday Times


An utterly riveting,frequently moving,and staggeringly well-written book
Daily Mail


Breathtaking
Guardian

This novel opens on a battlefield:
Trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who will watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf.

This is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it.

This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.

Weight: 276g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526617361