{"id":1669,"date":"2016-10-22T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:41:16","slug":"breakfast-meeting-november-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-november-18-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting November 18, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Eva Stachniak is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Winter Palace<\/i> and Empress of the Night<\/i>, two novels inspired by Catherine the Great The Winter Palace<\/i> was a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and made The Washington Post\u2019s most notable fiction list. She holds a PhD in literature from McGill University.<\/p>\n

The Chosen Maiden<\/em>, set in the world of Ballets Russes, was published by Doubleday in January of 2017.\u00a0The Chosen Maiden<\/em> is like entering Aladdin\u2019s Cave, where a vivid, strange and enchanting world awaits. This is the world Stachniak paints of the Ballets Russes, replete with firebirds and fauns, love affairs and bitter artistic rivalries. Most of all, it is the thrilling world of the Great Nijinsky and his passionate and unforgettable sister Bronia, whose discipline and talent rival her famous brother\u2019s, but whose greatest genius may be her will to survive. Spanning two world wars and the Russian Revolution, Eva Stachniak\u2019s sumptuous and evocative dance of the Chosen Maiden is the dance of 20th century history.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Poland, she moved to Canada in 1981, and lives in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eva Stachniak is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Winter Palace and Empress of the Night, two novels inspired by Catherine the Great The Winter Palace was a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and made The Washington Post\u2019s most notable fiction list. She holds a PhD in literature from McGill … Continue reading Breakfast Meeting November 18, 2017<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t