Zoya (novel)

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Zoya
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First edition
Author Danielle Steel
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Romance novel
PublisherDelacorte Press
Publication date
1987
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN 9780385296496
OCLC 695587179

Zoya is a 1987 romance novel by American Danielle Steel. It is Steel's 23rd novel.

Contents

Plot

Zoya Konstantinovna Ossupov is a Russian countess, a young cousin to Tsar Nicholas II. Escaping the Russian Revolution with her grandmother and a loyal retainer, she arrives in Paris, penniless, where she must carve a new life for herself and her loved ones. There, she joins Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Against the wishes of her grandmother, who objects to consorting with those outside her class, she meets and falls in love with American GI Clayton Andrews. After World War I, they marry and move to America, where Zoya faces many joys and hardships in her life. She struggles through the Great Depression and World War II, then meets and falls for millionaire cloth merchant, Simon Hirsch, who later died in another war.

TV Film adaptation

In the TV movie version, Zoya is portrayed by Melissa Gilbert. Her husband, Clayton Andrews, is portrayed by her then-husband Bruce Boxleitner. [1] Zoya's grandmother Evgenia is portrayed by Dame Diana Rigg; Philip Casnoff, David Warner, Denise Alexander and Jennifer Garner also appear.

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References

  1. "Danielle Steel's Zoya (1995)". BFI . Archived from the original on September 28, 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.