Dec 15, 2006 01:08 AM
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Zoya is quite a good story.
It is about zoya who is 17 years old who is in a royal family in russia. One night there is revolution which kills all of her family. Only zoya and her grandmother escape from russia. At first they stay at her grandmothers cousins who is the tsar of russia and zoya's best friend was marie his daughter. The tsar is not alload to leave from rusia and later on in the book him and his family are killed. zoya and her grandmother leave for paris where everybody that has escaped russia have gone. in paris everyone is ver poor and have no money so zoya's grandmother has to sell all her jewles and everything for money but they don't get much money for them. while they are in paris zoya joins the ballet and she meets a man called clayton. clayton is in the army and he is amercian from new york. zoya's grandmother doesn't like clayton very much and ends up splitting them up. but when her grandmother dies clayton comes back and they get married. zoya moves from paris to live in new york with clayton and then she is very rich again and has two children called nicholas and sasha. clayton dies of a heart attack and leaves his children and zoya with nothing so they have no money anymore and they have to move out of there home and buy a horrible flat somewhere in new york. zoya goes to dance for her job but one night there is a fire and she realises she doesn't want to leave her children alone again after they were left in the fire, so zoya gets a new job in a clothes shop and goes back to paris on a trip for her job where she meets simon. zoyan and simon get married and they open up a shop of there own and zoya has another baby called matthew. simone dies because he goes in to the war and then sasha also dies in an accident after having a child. zoya has to bring her grandaughter up and then at the end her son has a child called zoe aswell and they both decide to go back to russia. this book does go on for a long time and it is all about zoya's life from russia to paris and then new york. this book is quite good and so is the film.
