Dancer - Colum McCann

In the biting Soviet winter of 1941, a small boy spins on the earthen floor of a shack, his shabby boots kicking up the dust. Twenty years later, his first season in Paris, he has the world at his feet. Dancer is the story of a genius, an enigma, a social force.

It is the story of one boy’s single-minded devotion to dance and of those swept along, and sometimes destroyed, by his obsession.