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Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested.
Born in Madrid to a Russian soprano and a Spanish tenor, Lina had spent much of her youth in Brooklyn. It was while working as a secretary, hoping to build her own singing career, that she met the young pianist and composer Serge Prokofiev. Although her mother warned her against him, their relationship evolved in the full glare of the media.
In 1936 the couple was enticed back to the Soviet Union with the promise of artistic and personal freedom. The assurances proved false, and when Serge later abandoned Lina she found herself trapped in the country, struggling to support their two sons through one of the darkest periods in Soviet history.
What emerges is not simply the portrait of a famous composer’s wife but of a remarkable woman who gave up her career for the brilliant man she married. Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel, The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces this largely untold story, from the moment Lina fell in love with a rising star to her experiences in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call.
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"Unforgettable as a testimony of personal devotion" (John Carey Sunday Times)
"Morrison tells a good story, without excess or indulgence, and with touching empathy for his heroine" (Guardian)
"Immensely readable and entertaining" (Amanda Foreman New Statesman)
"Morrison writes excellently... As much a story of personal tragedy and disappointment as it is a compelling study of how art and tyranny interact" (Stuart Kelly Scotsman)
"Meticulously researched" (Richard Morrison The Times)
Descrizione del libro
The dramatic untold story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev: a tale of a doomed love and a shattering portrait of an artist
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- EditoreHarvill Secker
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1846557313
- ISBN 13 9781846557316
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine336
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