THE LOVE AND WARS OF LINA PROKOFIEV by Simon Morrison ( 9780099581789 )

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Title:

THE LOVE AND WARS OF LINA PROKOFIEV
THE STORY OF LINA AND SERGE PROKOFIEV

By:

Simon Morrison

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Paperback

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0099581787

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9780099581789

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Pub. date:

20 March, 2014

Pages:

368

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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 for treason.

Synopsis:

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week. 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 for treason. First enraptured by the young pianist and rising star, Serge Prokofiev, during a courtship in Brooklyn, then abandoned by him in Moscow, Lina survived one of the darkest periods in Soviet history - enduring eight years in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call. Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel, The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces the largely untold story of a remarkable woman who gave up her career, her country and her freedom for the brilliant man she married.

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