DancerRemarkable 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