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The red daughter: a novel

✍ Scribed by John Burnham Schwartz

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 196 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1984853872

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✦ Synopsis

Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.
"I read this lustrous novel in a single great draught. It is such a fine portrait of Stalin's daughter—a difficult, complicated, and deeply sympathetic woman."—Lauren Groff
In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America.
She is a contradictory celebrity: charismatic and headstrong, lonely and haunted, excited and alienated by...

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