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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Poliakoff, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, arriving to Puerto Rico in 1917. Upon arrival they learn about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], which has rendered their Russian passports obsolete and leaves them stranded in an island that is undergoing its own transition from [[UsefulNotes/PuertoRico a Spanish colony to an American territory]]. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports so they can leave, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Poliakoff, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, arriving to Puerto Rico in 1917. Upon arrival they learn about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], which has rendered their Russian passports obsolete and leaves them stranded in on an island that is undergoing its own transition from [[UsefulNotes/PuertoRico a Spanish colony to an American territory]]. As her husband/manager Dandré tries to get British passports so they can leave, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
* BittersweetEnding: When the company finally leaves, [[spoiler: Madame orders Masha to stay behind, accusing her of having called the police which led to Diamantino's death. But Masha is in love with Juan and settles down with him, having two children and founding a dance school. Later on, Masha and Madame cross paths, and the latter appears to not hold grudges.]]
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* LoveObstructingParents: Diamantino's parents are deceased, but his godfather and his wife frown on him having a relationship with Madame, who is older and Russian.
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* LoveObstructingParents: Diamantino's parents are deceased, but his godfather Don Pedro and his wife Doña Basilisa frown on him having a relationship with Madame, who is older and Russian.
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* ChildByRape: Bienvenido, as a result of [[spoiler: Don Pedro Batistini]] raping his mother Aralia. When [[spoiler:Don Pedro's wife, Doña Basilisa]] sees her daughter kissing Bienvenido, she intervenes to prevent [[BrotherSisterIncest an incestuous relationship between half siblings]].
* ChocolateBaby: After being raped by [[spoiler:Don Pedro Batistini]] Aralia gives birth to a son who has the same red hair. She calls the boy Bienvenido and has her rapist become the boy's godfather.
* ChocolateBaby: After being raped by [[spoiler:Don Pedro Batistini]] Aralia gives birth to a son who has the same red hair. She calls the boy Bienvenido and has her rapist become the boy's godfather.
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* BannedInChina: InUniverse. Madame watches poet Manuel Aljama recite one of his poems ("Last Requiem" about the death and resurrection of one's homeland) at a school. The police take him away because under the American government, any display of Puerto Rican nationalism is forbidden.
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* DoubleStandard: Masha is upset with Madame given her AgeGapRomance with Diamantino, who is almost twenty years younger. In her own words, "When an older woman falls in love with a handsome swain, it's an insult to nature."
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* PropagandaMachine: At the reception at the Governor's residence, Madame is shot, getting her arm grazed. However, the press is forbidden to report ANYTHING about her being shot. It never happened.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: For a while, as a teen Madame has two lovers: Dandré and prince Kotshubei. Eventually she gets pregnant and has an abortion that leaves her infertile. Ever since, if she sees a child on the street, she feels like hugging him.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Poliakoff, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, arriving to Puerto Rico in 1917. Upon arrival they learn about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], ahich has rendered their Russian passports obsolete and leaves them stranded. In an island that is undergoing its own transition from a Spanish colony to an American territory. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports so they can leave, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Poliakoff, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, arriving to Puerto Rico in 1917. Upon arrival they learn about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution]], ahich which has rendered their Russian passports obsolete and leaves them stranded. In stranded in an island that is undergoing its own transition from [[UsefulNotes/PuertoRico a Spanish colony to an American territory.territory]]. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports so they can leave, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Between Madame and Dandré. He becomes her sponsor in the beginning and with his help, she creates the ballet company. He is the one that reaps most of the troupe's earnings, while some of the dancers have to ask their families for money for living expenses.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Federovna, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, making a brief but fateful stop on a Caribbean island on 1917. What Madame does not anticipate is that the Russian Revolution will leave them stranded. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Federovna, Poliakoff, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour, making a brief but fateful stop on a Caribbean island on arriving to Puerto Rico in 1917. What Madame does not anticipate is that Upon arrival they learn about the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Revolution will leave Revolution]], ahich has rendered their Russian passports obsolete and leaves them stranded. In an island that is undergoing its own transition from a Spanish colony to an American territory. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports, passports so they can leave, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Federovna and her troupe on tour that makes a brief stop on a Caribbean island on 1917. What Madame (as narrator Masha and all call her) does not anticipate is that historical events will leave them stranded there.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of world-famous ballerina Niura Federovna and Federovna, as narrated by company dancer Masha Mastova. Madame, as Masha calls her, takes her ballet troupe on tour that makes tour, making a brief but fateful stop on a Caribbean island on 1917. What Madame (as narrator Masha and all call her) does not anticipate is that historical events the Russian Revolution will leave them stranded there.
stranded. As her husband/manager tries to get British passports, she falls in love with the much younger Diamantino Marquez to the dismay of Masha and the others...
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* AgeGapRomance: Between Madame, a world-famous ballerina, and Diamantino.
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* AgeGapRomance: Between Madame, a world-famous ballerina, and Diamantino.Diamantino Marquez.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Madame can be considered a fictionalized version of ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Madame can be considered a fictionalized version of ballerina Anna Pavlova. Her "husband"/manager Victor Dandré shares his name with Pavlova's.
* MeaningfulName: Diamantino Márquez. When Madame meets him, he is wearing raggedy clothes but his jacket has diamond buttons. His name is derived from ''diamante'', the Spanish word for diamonds.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Madame can be considered a fictionalized version of ballerina Anna Pavlova.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Madame can be considered a fictionalized version of ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The action is narrated by Masha, one of the dancers who is witness to the changes Madame undergoes.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The action is narrated by Masha, one of the dancers who is witness to the changes Madame undergoes.undergoes and feels betrayed by Madame's love affair.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of a {{ballet}} troupe headed by Niura Federovna (known to ballerina and narrator as Madame) on tour that makes a brief stop in Puerto Rico, not anticipating that historical events will leave them stranded there.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of a {{ballet}} troupe headed by world-famous ballerina Niura Federovna (known to ballerina and narrator as Madame) her troupe on tour that makes a brief stop in Puerto Rico, on a Caribbean island on 1917. What Madame (as narrator Masha and all call her) does not anticipating anticipate is that historical events will leave them stranded there.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Governor of Puerto Rico at the time, the American Arthur Yager, invites Madame to dance at La Fortaleza (the Governor's residence).
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Governor of Puerto Rico at the time, the American [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Yager Arthur Yager, Yager]], invites Madame to dance at La Fortaleza (the Governor's residence).
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of a {{ballet}} troop troupe headed by Niura Federovna (known to ballerina and narrator as Madame) on tour that makes a brief stop in Puerto Rico, not anticipating that historical events will leave them stranded there.
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* AgeGapRomance: Between Madame, a world-famous ballerina, and Diamantino.
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* BrokenPedestal: The troop members feel betrayed by Madame falling in love with the much younger Diamantino.
* FakeRussian: InUniverse. All dancers in the troupe have Russian names (Katia, Maya, Egorova, Natasha, Nadya, and Masha), but two of them are Englishwomen.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Governor of Puerto Rico at the time, the American Arthur Yager, invites Madame to dance at La Fortaleza (the Governor's residence).
* LoveObstructingParents: Diamantino's parents are deceased, but his godfather and his wife frown on him having a relationship with Madame, who is older and Russian.
* ShoutOut: To dancer Creator/IsadoraDuncan. Madame looks down on Duncan for the latter's improvisational dancing and her preference for [[DoesNotLikeShoes dancing barefoot]] and half-naked. Madame views dancing en pointe as vital for spiritual transcendence.
* FakeRussian: InUniverse. All dancers in the troupe have Russian names (Katia, Maya, Egorova, Natasha, Nadya, and Masha), but two of them are Englishwomen.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The Governor of Puerto Rico at the time, the American Arthur Yager, invites Madame to dance at La Fortaleza (the Governor's residence).
* LoveObstructingParents: Diamantino's parents are deceased, but his godfather and his wife frown on him having a relationship with Madame, who is older and Russian.
* ShoutOut: To dancer Creator/IsadoraDuncan. Madame looks down on Duncan for the latter's improvisational dancing and her preference for [[DoesNotLikeShoes dancing barefoot]] and half-naked. Madame views dancing en pointe as vital for spiritual transcendence.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of a {{ballet}} troop on tour that makes a brief stop in Puerto Rico, not anticipating that historical events will leave them stranded there.
!!Tropes present in this work include
* BerserkButton: A reporter goes to interview Madame, but it is obvious that he did not do his research. In the end, he commits the faux pas of asking ''her age''. She becomes furious and tells him off.
* UnreliableNarrator: The action is narrated by Masha, one of the dancers who is witness to the changes Madame undergoes.
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''Flight of the Swan'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Puerto Rican author Creator/RosarioFerre. Originally published in 2001, it tells the story of a {{ballet}} troop on tour that makes a brief stop in Puerto Rico, not anticipating that historical events will leave them stranded there.
!!Tropes present in this work include
* BerserkButton: A reporter goes to interview Madame, but it is obvious that he did not do his research. In the end, he commits the faux pas of asking ''her age''. She becomes furious and tells him off.
* UnreliableNarrator: The action is narrated by Masha, one of the dancers who is witness to the changes Madame undergoes.
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